Self-assembled stereomutation with supramolecular chirality inversion

G Liu, MG Humphrey, C Zhang, Y Zhao - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Supramolecular chirality is involved not only in biological events such as gene
communication, replication, and enzyme catalysis but also in artificial self-assembly systems …

Supramolecular chiroptical switches

L Zhang, HX Wang, S Li, M Liu - Chemical Society Reviews, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Chiroptical switches, whose chiral optical signals such as optical rotatory dispersion (ORD),
circular dichroism (CD) and circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) are reversibly …

Chemical fuels for molecular machinery

S Borsley, DA Leigh, BMW Roberts - Nature Chemistry, 2022 - nature.com
Chemical reaction networks that transform out-of-equilibrium 'fuel'to 'waste'are the engines
that power the biomolecular machinery of the cell. Inspired by such systems, autonomous …

Chemically fueled self‐assembly in biology and chemistry

K Das, L Gabrielli, LJ Prins - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Life is a non‐equilibrium state of matter maintained at the expense of energy. Nature uses
predominantly chemical energy stored in thermodynamically activated, but kinetically stable …

Insights into chemically fueled supramolecular polymers

A Sharko, D Livitz, S De Piccoli, KJM Bishop… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Supramolecular polymerization can be controlled in space and time by chemical fuels. A
nonassembled monomer is activated by the fuel and subsequently self-assembles into a …

Self-assembly as a key player for materials nanoarchitectonics

K Ariga, M Nishikawa, T Mori, J Takeya… - … and Technology of …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
The development of science and technology of advanced materials using nanoscale units
can be conducted by a novel concept involving combination of nanotechnology …

Energy consumption in chemical fuel-driven self-assembly

G Ragazzon, LJ Prins - Nature nanotechnology, 2018 - nature.com
Nature extensively exploits high-energy transient self-assembly structures that are able to
perform work through a dissipative process. Often, self-assembly relies on the use of …

[HTML][HTML] Stimuli-responsive synthetic helical polymers

M Lago-Silva, M Fernández-Míguez… - Chemical Society …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Synthetic dynamic helical polymers (supramolecular and covalent) and foldamers share the
helix as a structural motif. Although the materials are different, these systems also share …

[HTML][HTML] Pure drug nano-assemblies: A facile carrier-free nanoplatform for efficient cancer therapy

S Fu, G Li, W Zang, X Zhou, K Shi, Y Zhai - Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B, 2022 - Elsevier
Nanoparticulate drug delivery systems (Nano-DDSs) have emerged as possible solution to
the obstacles of anticancer drug delivery. However, the clinical outcomes and translation are …

Controlling supramolecular chirality in multicomponent self-assembled systems

P **ng, Y Zhao - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2018 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Chirality exists as a ubiquitous phenomenon in nature, from molecular level l-
amino acids, d-sugar, secondary structures of proteins, DNA, RNA, and nanoscale helices to …