Recent Advances and Future Developments in the Preparation of Polypeptides via N-Carboxyanhydride (NCA) Ring-Opening Polymerization

Y Wu, K Chen, J Wang, M Chen, W Dai… - Journal of the American …, 2024‏ - ACS Publications
Polypeptides have the same or similar backbone structures as proteins and peptides,
rendering them as suitable and important biomaterials. Amino acid N-carboxyanhydrides …

Biopolymer-based functional composites for medical applications

SB Park, E Lih, KS Park, YK Joung, DK Han - Progress in Polymer Science, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Over the last decade, numerous biopolymers have received more attention in medical
applications involving novel biomaterials because of their biocompatibility, biodegradability …

Where biology and traditional polymers meet: The potential of associating sequence-defined polymers for materials science

AJ DeStefano, RA Segalman, EC Davidson - Jacs Au, 2021‏ - ACS Publications
Polymers with precisely defined monomeric sequences present an exquisite tool for
controlling material properties by harnessing both the robustness of synthetic polymers and …

Synthesis, self-assembly, and biomedical applications of antimicrobial peptide–polymer conjugates

H Sun, Y Hong, Y **, Y Zou, J Gao, J Du - Biomacromolecules, 2018‏ - ACS Publications
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) have been attracting much attention due to their excellent
antimicrobial efficiency and low rate in driving antimicrobial resistance (AMR), which has …

Coordination− insertion copolymerization of fundamental polar monomers

A Nakamura, S Ito, K Nozaki - Chemical reviews, 2009‏ - ACS Publications
Akifumi Nakamura (left) was born in 1984 in Kanagawa, Japan. He received his BS degree
in 2007 and MS degree in 2009 from the University of Tokyo under the guidance of …

[كتاب][B] Nanochemistry: a chemical approach to nanomaterials

GA Ozin, A Arsenault - 2015‏ - books.google.com
International interest in nanoscience research has flourished in recent years, as it becomes
an integral part in the development of future technologies. The diverse, interdisciplinary …

Polypeptides and 100 Years of Chemistry of α‐Amino Acid N‐Carboxyanhydrides

HR Kricheldorf - Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2006‏ - Wiley Online Library
Syntheses and polymerizations of α‐amino acid N‐carboxyanhydrides (NCAs) were
reported for the first time by Hermann Leuchs in 1906. Since that time, these cyclic and …

Facile synthesis of block copolypeptides of defined architecture

TJ Deming - Nature, 1997‏ - nature.com
Many natural polymeric materials (particularly structural proteins) display a hierarchy of
structure over several length scales. Block copolymers are able to self-assemble into …

Stimuli responsive synthetic polypeptides derived from N-carboxyanhydride (NCA) polymerisation

J Huang, A Heise - Chemical Society Reviews, 2013‏ - pubs.rsc.org
The progress in NCA polymerisation combined with advanced orthogonal functionalization
techniques as well as the integration with other controlled polymerisation techniques …

Chiral architectures from macromolecular building blocks

JJLM Cornelissen, AE Rowan, RJM Nolte… - Chemical …, 2001‏ - ACS Publications
In the course of evolution, Nature has developed a multitude of biomacromolecules tailored
to deal with complicated tasks such as information storage, support of tissue, transport, and …