Chiral self-assembly of peptides: Toward the design of supramolecular polymers with enhanced chemical and biological functions

Y Shen, Y Wang, IW Hamley, W Qi, R Su… - Progress in Polymer …, 2021 - Elsevier
Chirality is one of the most important structural features in biological systems. Peptides, as a
class of small biomolecules, can self-assemble into various chiral supramolecular polymers …

The design and biomedical applications of self-assembled two-dimensional organic biomaterials

X Zhang, C Gong, OU Akakuru, Z Su, A Wu… - Chemical Society …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
The design and applications of some inorganic two-dimensional (2D) nanomaterials such as
graphene, graphyne, and borophene have been widely studied in recent years. Meanwhile …

Reversible thermoresponsive peptide–PNIPAM hydrogels for controlled drug delivery

M Cao, Y Wang, X Hu, H Gong, R Li, H Cox… - …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Mixed thermoreversible gels were successfully fabricated by the addition of a
thermosensitive polymer, poly (N-isopropylacrylamide)(PNIPAM), to fibrillar nanostructures …

Amphiphilic self-assembly peptides: Rational strategies to design and delivery for drugs in biomedical applications

C Zhao, H Chen, F Wang, X Zhang - Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces, 2021 - Elsevier
Amphiphilic self-assembling peptides are widely used in tissue and cell engineering,
antimicrobials, drug-delivery systems and other biomedical fields due to their good …

Supramolecular self-assembly of dinuclear alkynylplatinum (II) complexes into highly ordered crystalline hexagonal bipyramid superstructures

HZ Wang, MHY Chan, Z Chen, ZY Chen, MY Leung… - Chem, 2023 - cell.com
We demonstrate the formation of highly symmetric crystalline hexagonal bipyramid-shaped
superstructures in the self-assembly of dinuclear Pt (II) terpyridine complexes and show that …

Peptide-coordination self-assembly for the precise design of theranostic nanodrugs

M Cao, R **ng, R Chang, Y Wang, X Yan - Coordination Chemistry …, 2019 - Elsevier
Peptide-coordination self-assembly demonstrates great potential in the precise design of
next-generation theranostic nanodrugs. It has the advantages of high biosafety, versatile …

Designed peptide assemblies for efficient gene delivery

H Ma, M Cao - Langmuir, 2022 - ACS Publications
The safe and efficient delivery of nucleic acids including DNA, mRNA, siRNA, and miRNA
into targeted cells is critical for gene therapy. Currently, viral gene vectors are very popular …

Crystalline dipeptide nanobelts based on solid–solid phase transformation self-assembly and their polarization imaging of cells

J Song, R **ng, T Jiao, Q Peng, C Yuan… - … applied materials & …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Controlled phase transformation involving biomolecular organization to generate dynamic
biomimetic self-assembly systems and functional materials is currently an appealing topic of …

Cancer-responsive multifunctional nanoplatform based on peptide self-assembly for highly efficient combined cancer therapy by alleviating hypoxia and improving the …

J Wu, Y Liu, M Cao, N Zheng, H Ma, X Ye… - … Applied Materials & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Hypoxia, as a main feature of the tumor microenvironment, has greatly limited the efficacy of
photodynamic therapy (PDT), as well as its clinical application. Here, a multifunctional …

Self-assembled peptide nanorod vaccine confers protection against influenza A virus

X Zottig, S Al-Halifa, M Côté-Cyr, C Calzas, R Le Goffic… - Biomaterials, 2021 - Elsevier
Proteinaceous nanostructures have emerged as a promising strategy to develop safe and
efficient subunit vaccines. The ability of synthetic β-sheet self-assembling peptides to …