Peptide design and self-assembly into targeted nanostructure and functional materials

NJ Sinha, MG Langenstein, DJ Pochan… - Chemical …, 2021‏ - ACS Publications
Peptides have been extensively utilized to construct nanomaterials that display targeted
structure through hierarchical assembly. The self-assembly of both rationally designed …

Pharmapolymers in the 21st century: Synthetic polymers in drug delivery applications

C Englert, JC Brendel, TC Majdanski, T Yildirim… - Progress in Polymer …, 2018‏ - Elsevier
The administration of drugs, as a main challenge of pharmaceutical and medicinal
applications, has certainly benefited from the application of synthetic polymers. However …

50th Anniversary Perspective: Block PolymersPure Potential

CM Bates, FS Bates - Macromolecules, 2017‏ - ACS Publications
Block polymers have undergone extraordinary evolution since their inception more than 60
years ago, maturing from simple surfactants to an expansive class of macromolecules …

Data-driven design of polymer-based biomaterials: high-throughput simulation, experimentation, and machine learning

RA Patel, MA Webb - ACS Applied Bio Materials, 2023‏ - ACS Publications
Polymers, with the capacity to tunably alter properties and response based on manipulation
of their chemical characteristics, are attractive components in biomaterials. Nevertheless …

Iterative exponential growth of stereo-and sequence-controlled polymers

JC Barnes, DJC Ehrlich, AX Gao, FA Leibfarth… - Nature …, 2015‏ - nature.com
Chemists have long sought sequence-controlled synthetic polymers that mimic nature's
biopolymers, but a practical synthetic route that enables absolute control over polymer …

A general approach to sequence-controlled polymers using macrocyclic ring opening metathesis polymerization

WR Gutekunst, CJ Hawker - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2015‏ - ACS Publications
A new and general strategy for the synthesis of sequence-defined polymers is described that
employs relay metathesis to promote the ring opening polymerization of unstrained …

Recent progress in the design of monodisperse, sequence‐defined macromolecules

SC Solleder, RV Schneider, KS Wetzel… - Macromolecular …, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
This review describes different synthetic strategies towards sequence‐defined,
monodisperse macromolecules, which are built up by iterative approaches and lead to …

Sequence programmable peptoid polymers for diverse materials applications

AS Knight, EY Zhou, MB Francis… - Advanced …, 2015‏ - Wiley Online Library
Polymer sequence programmability is required for the diverse structures and complex
properties that are achieved by native biological polymers, but efforts towards controlling the …

Designing electrostatic interactions via polyelectrolyte monomer sequence

TK Lytle, LW Chang, N Markiewicz, SL Perry… - ACS central …, 2019‏ - ACS Publications
Charged polymers are ubiquitous in biological systems because electrostatic interactions
can drive complicated structure formation and respond to environmental parameters such as …

Molecular level studies on interfacial hydration of zwitterionic and other antifouling polymers in situ

C Leng, S Sun, K Zhang, S Jiang, Z Chen - Acta biomaterialia, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Antifouling polymers have wide applications in biomedical engineering and marine industry.
Recently, zwitterionic materials have been reported as promising candidates for antifouling …