Synthesis, assembly, and applications of hybrid nanostructures for biosensing

S Zhang, R Geryak, J Geldmeier, S Kim… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
The robust, sensitive, and selective detection of targeted biomolecules in their native
environment by prospective nanostructures holds much promise for real-time, accurate, and …

Polymeric materials with switchable superwettability for controllable oil/water separation: A comprehensive review

JJ Li, YN Zhou, ZH Luo - Progress in Polymer Science, 2018 - Elsevier
Oily water treatment has become an urgent need in our daily life because of its harmful
potential to the ecological system. In recent years, functional materials with superwetting or …

Enzyme-responsive polymeric assemblies, nanoparticles and hydrogels

J Hu, G Zhang, S Liu - Chemical Society Reviews, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Being responsive and adaptive to external stimuli is an intrinsic feature characteristic of all
living organisms and soft matter. Specifically, responsive polymers can exhibit reversible or …

Stimuli-responsive surfaces for bio-applications

PM Mendes - Chemical Society Reviews, 2008 - pubs.rsc.org
The development of surfaces that have switchable properties, also known as smart surfaces,
have been actively pursued in the past few years. The recent surge of interest in these …

Smart surfaces with reversibly switchable wettability: concepts, synthesis and applications

H Liu, L Zhang, J Huang, J Mao, Z Chen, Q Mao… - Advances in Colloid and …, 2022 - Elsevier
As a growing hot research topic, manufacturing smart switchable surfaces has attracted
much attention in the past a few years. The state-of-the-art study on reversibly switchable …

Advances in design and biomedical application of hierarchical polymer brushes

R Yang, X Wang, S Yan, A Dong, S Luan… - Progress in Polymer …, 2021 - Elsevier
Recent decades have witnessed abundant research on surface modifications to hierarchical
polymer brushes for multiple biomedical applications. The rational design and spatial …

Mixed polymer brush-grafted particles: a new class of environmentally responsive nanostructured materials

B Zhao, L Zhu - Macromolecules, 2009 - ACS Publications
Mixed polymer brush-grafted particles, in which two distinct polymers are randomly or
alternately immobilized by one end via a covalent bond on the surface of core particles with …

Biomimetic micro/nanostructured functional surfaces for microfluidic and tissue engineering applications

E Stratakis, A Ranella, C Fotakis - Biomicrofluidics, 2011 - pubs.aip.org
This paper reviews our work on the application of ultrafast pulsed laser
micro/nanoprocessing for the three-dimensional (3D) biomimetic modification of materials …

Gradient polymer surfaces for biomedical applications

MS Kim, G Khang, HB Lee - Progress in polymer science, 2008 - Elsevier
The importance of biomaterials has been recognized in biomedical research for over three
decades. Their practical utilization in biomedical applications depends on the appropriate …

Surface engineering with polymer brush photolithography

M Fromel, M Li, CW Pester - Macromolecular rapid …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Surface‐tethered macromolecules, or polymer brushes, offer a unique platform for coating
surfaces for a wide variety of applications. Surface‐initiated polymerization (SI‐P), through …