Soft materials by design: unconventional polymer networks give extreme properties

X Zhao, X Chen, H Yuk, S Lin, X Liu… - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Hydrogels are polymer networks infiltrated with water. Many biological hydrogels in animal
bodies such as muscles, heart valves, cartilages, and tendons possess extreme mechanical …

First-row d-block element-catalyzed carbon–boron bond formation and related processes

SK Bose, L Mao, L Kuehn, U Radius… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Organoboron reagents represent a unique class of compounds because of their utility in
modern synthetic organic chemistry, often affording unprecedented reactivity. The …

Artificial-enzymes-armed Bifidobacterium longum probiotics for alleviating intestinal inflammation and microbiota dysbiosis

F Cao, L **, Y Gao, Y Ding, H Wen, Z Qian… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Inflammatory bowel disease can be caused by the dysfunction of the intestinal mucosal
barrier and dysregulation of gut microbiota. Traditional treatments use drugs to manage …

Recent progress in self-healing polymers and hydrogels based on reversible dynamic B–O bonds: boronic/boronate esters, borax, and benzoxaborole

S Cho, SY Hwang, DX Oh, J Park - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Intrinsic self-healing polymeric materials are substances that relieve external stress and
restore their original mechanical properties after extreme damage via dynamic covalent …

The glycosylation in SARS-CoV-2 and its receptor ACE2

Y Gong, S Qin, L Dai, Z Tian - Signal Transduction and Targeted …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a highly infectious disease caused by
severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has infected more than …

Reaction-based fluorescent probes for the detection and imaging of reactive oxygen, nitrogen, and sulfur species

L Wu, AC Sedgwick, X Sun, SD Bull… - Accounts of chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Conspectus This Account describes a range of strategies for the development of fluorescent
probes for detecting reactive oxygen species (ROS), reactive nitrogen species (RNS), and …

Fluorogenic probes for disease-relevant enzymes

J Zhang, X Chai, XP He, HJ Kim, J Yoon… - Chemical Society …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Traditional biochemical methods for enzyme detection are mainly based on antibody-based
immunoassays, which lack the ability to monitor the spatiotemporal distribution and, in …

Boron-based stimuli responsive materials

SK Mellerup, S Wang - Chemical Society Reviews, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Boron-based stimuli responsive systems represent an emerging class of useful materials
with a wide variety of applications. Functions within these boron-doped molecules are …

High-performance vitrimers from commodity thermoplastics through dioxaborolane metathesis

M Röttger, T Domenech, R van Der Weegen… - Science, 2017 - science.org
Windmills, cars, and dental restoration demand polymer materials and composites that are
easy to process, assemble, and recycle while exhibiting outstanding mechanical, thermal …

Chemically engineered mesoporous silica nanoparticles-based intelligent delivery systems for theranostic applications in multiple cancerous/non-cancerous diseases

S Zhou, Q Zhong, Y Wang, P Hu, W Zhong… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2022 - Elsevier
In recent years, the unprecedented advances of biomedical nanotechnology have spurred
the development of drug delivery systems (DDSs) based on multifarious nanomaterials in …