[HTML][HTML] Dendrimers: exploring their wide structural variety and applications

M Pérez-Ferreiro, A M. Abelairas, A Criado, IJ Gómez… - Polymers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Dendrimers constitute a distinctive category of synthetic materials that bear resemblance to
proteins in various aspects, such as discrete structural organization, globular morphology …

From Frank–Kasper, Quasicrystals, and Biological Membrane Mimics to Reprogramming In Vivo the Living Factory to Target the Delivery of mRNA with One …

V Percec, D Sahoo - Biomacromolecules, 2024 - ACS Publications
This Perspective is dedicated to the 25th Anniversary of Biomacromolecules. It provides a
personal view on the develo** field of the polymer and biology interface over the 25 years …

Screening libraries to discover molecular design principles for the targeted delivery of mRNA with one-component ionizable amphiphilic Janus dendrimers derived …

J Lu, EN Atochina-Vasserman, DS Maurya, MI Shalihin… - Pharmaceutics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Viral and synthetic vectors to deliver nucleic acids were key to the rapid development of
extraordinarily efficient COVID-19 vaccines. The four-component lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) …

[HTML][HTML] Bridging organic, molecular, macromolecular, supramolecular and biological sciences to create functions via fluorine chemistry and fluorinated reagents

V Percec, D Sahoo, DS Maurya - Giant, 2023 - Elsevier
After a brief introduction highlighting the challenges of fluorine chemistry and the latest
developments in the field, this Perspective will discuss how a combination of fluorine and …

Supramolecular assembly of dendronized diacetylenes into thermoresponsive chiral fibers and their covalent fixation through topochemical polymerization

W Mei, W Li, A Zhang - Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 2024 - Elsevier
By combination of dendritic topological structures with photopolymerizable diacetylene, here
we report on supramolecular chiral assembly of the dendronized diacetylenes in water …

[HTML][HTML] Dendrimers, Dendrons, and the Dendritic State: Reflection on the Last Decade with Expected New Roles in Pharma, Medicine, and the Life Sciences

DA Tomalia - Pharmaceutics, 2024 - mdpi.com
This perspective begins with an overview of the major impact that the dendron, dendrimer,
and dendritic state (DDDS) discovery has made on traditional polymer science. The entire …

Hybrid nanostructures of hyperbranched polyester loaded with Gd (III) and Dy (III) ions

MP Kutyreva, AI Vagapova, AF Maksimov… - ACS Applied Polymer …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Hyperbranched polymers are successful nanoscale functional platforms for loading metal
ions and creating promising nanomaterials for medicine. This work presents the synthesis of …

Bridging Frontiers in Macromolecular and Supramolecular Sciences with Living Cationic Ring‐Opening Polymerization of Self‐Organizable Dendronized Cyclic‐Imino …

V Percec, D Sahoo - Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Living cationic ring‐opening polymerization accompanied by isomerization of cyclic imino
ethers is performed at high temperatures that provide access to the synthesis of self …

Concepts from polymer synthesis deserving additional attention

V Percec, D Sahoo, DS Maurya - European Polymer Journal, 2025 - Elsevier
This Perspective discusses a selected group of new and older concepts from the field of
polymer synthesis, which according to the authors, deserve additional research in order to …

Enzyme and pH dual responsive linear-dendritic block copolymer micelles based on a phenylalanyl–lysine motif and peripherally ketal-functionalized dendron as …

Y Wang, W Song, L Bao, J Wei, Y Qian, Y Bi - RSC advances, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Stimuli–responsive linear-dendritic block copolymers (LDBCs) have attracted significant
research attention as novel drug carriers. We report here three generations of new enzyme …