Emerging applications for living crystallization-driven self-assembly

L MacFarlane, C Zhao, J Cai, H Qiu, I Manners - Chemical Science, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The use of crystallization as a tool to control the self-assembly of polymeric and molecular
amphiphiles in solution is attracting growing attention for the creation of non-spherical …

From nanoscopic to macroscopic materials by stimuli‐responsive nanoparticle aggregation

M Liu, M Yang, X Wan, Z Tang, L Jiang… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Stimuli‐responsive nanoparticle (NP) aggregation plays an increasingly important role in
regulating NP assembly into microscopic superstructures, macroscopic 2D, and 3D …

Living material assembly of bacteriogenic protocells

C Xu, N Martin, M Li, S Mann - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Advancing the spontaneous bottom-up construction of artificial cells with high organizational
complexity and diverse functionality remains an unresolved issue at the interface between …

Giant coacervate vesicles as an integrated approach to cytomimetic modeling

Y Zhang, Y Chen, X Yang, X He, M Li… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Although giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs) have been extensively studied as synthetic cell-
like microcompartments, their applicability as cytomimetic models is severely compromised …

Getting into shape: reflections on a new generation of cylindrical nanostructures' self-assembly using polymer building blocks

JC Foster, S Varlas, B Couturaud, Z Coe… - Journal of the …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Cylinders are fascinating structures with uniquely high surface area, internal volume, and
rigidity. On the nanoscale, a broad range of applications have demonstrated advantageous …

Concepts, fabrication methods and applications of living crystallization-driven self-assembly of block copolymers

S Ganda, MH Stenzel - Progress in Polymer Science, 2020 - Elsevier
Living crystallization-driven self-assembly (CDSA) has emerged as a technique that is able
to perform solution phase self-assembly of semi-crystalline block copolymers in a controlled …

Understanding the seeded heteroepitaxial growth of crystallizable polymers: the role of crystallization thermodynamics

L Zhu, L Liu, S Varlas, RY Wang, RK O'Reilly, Z Tong - ACS nano, 2023 - ACS Publications
Seeded heteroepitaxial growth is a “living” crystallization-driven self-assembly (CDSA)
method that has emerged as a promising route to create uniform segmented nanoparticles …

A close look at molecular self-assembly with the transmission electron microscope

A Rizvi, JT Mulvey, BP Carpenter, R Talosig… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Molecular self-assembly is pervasive in the formation of living and synthetic materials.
Knowledge gained from research into the principles of molecular self-assembly drives …

Engineering receptor-mediated transmembrane signaling in artificial and living cells

K Shi, C Song, Y Wang, R Chandrawati… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Living cells possess a variety of transmembrane signaling systems that receive chemical
and physical cues from the environment and transduce this information into an intracellular …

Uniform Biodegradable Fiber-Like Micelles and Block Comicelles via “Living” Crystallization-Driven Self-Assembly of Poly(l-lactide) Block Copolymers: The …

Y He, JC Eloi, RL Harniman… - Journal of the …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Fiber-like micelles based on biodegradable and biocompatible polymers exhibit
considerable promise for applications in nanomedicine, but until recently no convenient …