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 …

Polymersome-based protein drug delivery–quo vadis?

MG Gouveia, JP Wesseler, J Ramaekers… - Chemical Society …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Protein-based therapeutics are an attractive alternative to established therapeutic
approaches and represent one of the fastest growing families of drugs. While many of these …

Sequence control from mixtures: switchable polymerization catalysis and future materials applications

AC Deacy, GL Gregory, GS Sulley… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
There is an ever-increasing demand for higher-performing polymeric materials
counterbalanced by the need for sustainability throughout the life cycle. Copolymers …

Block copolymer solution self‐assembly: Recent advances, emerging trends, and applications

M Karayianni, S Pispas - Journal of polymer science, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The self‐assembly process of block copolymers (BCPs) in solution has been at the focus of
extended scientific research over the past several decades owing to the astonishing …

Evolution of macromolecular complexity in drug delivery systems

A Kakkar, G Traverso, OC Farokhzad… - Nature Reviews …, 2017 - nature.com
Designing therapeutics is a process with many challenges. Even if the first hurdle—
designing a drug that modulates the action of a particular biological target in vitro—is …

Ultra-high molecular weights via aqueous reversible-deactivation radical polymerization

RN Carmean, TE Becker, MB Sims, BS Sumerlin - Chem, 2017 - cell.com
Relying solely on mild UV irradiation of thiocarbonylthio compounds in the presence of vinyl
monomers, a new avenue to well-defined ultra-high-molecular-weight (UHMW) polymers …

Precision epitaxy for aqueous 1D and 2D poly (ε-caprolactone) assemblies

MC Arno, M Inam, Z Coe, G Cambridge… - Journal of the …, 2017 - ACS Publications
The fabrication of monodisperse nanostructures of highly controlled size and morphology
with spatially distinct functional regions is a current area of high interest in materials science …

Self-assembled nanostructures from amphiphilic block copolymers prepared via ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP)

S Varlas, SB Lawrenson, LA Arkinstall… - Progress in Polymer …, 2020 - Elsevier
The development of controlled/living polymerization methodologies has underpinned a
rapid expanse in our understanding of amphiphilic block copolymer self-assembly. In …

Unravelling the structure-activity relationship of porous binary metal-based electrocatalysts for green hydrogen evolution reaction

K Eid, KI Ozoemena, RS Varma - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2025 - Elsevier
Green hydrogen (H 2) production through hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) via water
splitting is deemed an efficient and sustainable fuel or energy carrier without environmental …

50th Anniversary Perspective: Solid-State Multistimuli, Multiresponsive Polymeric Materials

KM Herbert, S Schrettl, SJ Rowan, C Weder - Macromolecules, 2017 - ACS Publications
The field of stimuli-responsive polymers has grown in the past three decades from a few
obscure examples to one of the most vibrant domains of modern macromolecular science …