Chemically fueled self‐assembly in biology and chemistry

K Das, L Gabrielli, LJ Prins - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Life is a non‐equilibrium state of matter maintained at the expense of energy. Nature uses
predominantly chemical energy stored in thermodynamically activated, but kinetically stable …

Microscopic imaging techniques for molecular assemblies: electron, atomic force, and confocal microscopies

R Kubota, W Tanaka, I Hamachi - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Self-assembly is promising for construction of a wide variety of supramolecular assemblies,
whose 1D/2D/3D structures are typically relevant to their functions. In-depth understanding …

A chemically fueled supramolecular glue for self-healing gels

J Rodon-Fores, MA Würbser, M Kretschmer, B Rieß… - Chemical …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Chemically fueled supramolecular materials offer unique properties that include spatial and
temporal control and even the ability to self-heal. Indeed, a few studies have demonstrated …

Chemical Information Processing by a Responsive Chemical System

L Gabrielli, L Goldin, S Chandrabhas… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Nature has an extraordinary capacity to precisely regulate the chemical reactivity in a highly
complex mixture of molecules that is present in the cell. External stimuli lead to transient up …

Nonlinear Transient Permeability in pH-Responsive Bicontinuous Nanospheres

WP van den Akker, H Wu, PLW Welzen… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
We demonstrate the construction of pH-responsive bicontinuous nanospheres (BCNs) with
nonlinear transient permeability and catalytic activity. The BCNs were assembled from …

ATP-Assisted Protocellular Membrane Formation with Ethanolamine-Based Amphiphiles

M Prasad, B Hazra, R Mandal, S Das, PK Tarafdar - Langmuir, 2023 - ACS Publications
Prebiotic membranes are one of the essential elements of the origin of life because they
build compartments to keep genetic materials and metabolic machinery safe. Since modern …

Guiding Transient Peptide Assemblies with Structural Elements Embedded in Abiotic Phosphate Fuels

MD Pol, K Dai, R Thomann, S Moser… - Angewandte …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Despite great progress in the construction of non‐equilibrium systems, most approaches do
not consider the structure of the fuel as a critical element to control the processes. Herein …

Light-driven aqueous dissipative pseudorotaxanes with tunable fluorescence enabling deformable nano-assemblies

XF Hou, XM Chen, HK Bisoyi, Q Qi, T Xu… - … Applied Materials & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Develo** an artificial dynamic nanoscale molecular machine that dissipatively self-
assembles far from equilibrium is fundamentally important but is significantly challenging …

[HTML][HTML] Dissipative crystallization of ion-pair receptors

LP Skala, X Aguilar-Enriquez, CL Stern, WR Dichtel - Chem, 2023 - cell.com
Temporally controlled assemblies exhibit behaviors associated with living systems. Thus far,
these transient assemblies have been studied primarily in soft materials, such as gels …

Substrate-induced assembly of cascade enzymes and catalytic surfactants: nanoarchitectonics at the oil-in-water droplet interface

M Kaur, S Maiti - Chemical Communications, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
The heterogeneous distribution of lipids and lipid-bound proteins in a plasma membrane
has functional advantages. Herein, in a synthetic system, we demonstrate the assembly of …