Biomimetic peptide self-assembly for functional materials

A Levin, TA Hakala, L Schnaider… - Nature Reviews …, 2020‏ - nature.com
Natural biomolecular systems have evolved to form a rich variety of supramolecular
materials and machinery fundamental to cellular function. The assembly of these structures …

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 …

Protein assembly by design

J Zhu, N Avakyan, A Kakkis, AM Hoffnagle… - Chemical …, 2021‏ - ACS Publications
Proteins are nature's primary building blocks for the construction of sophisticated molecular
machines and dynamic materials, ranging from protein complexes such as photosystem II …

[HTML][HTML] Multimaterial 3D printing of self-assembling smart thermo-responsive polymers into 4D printed objects: A review

M Shahbazi, H Jäger, R Ettelaie, A Mohammadi… - Additive …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Abstract The three-dimensional (3D) printing and its extension four-dimensional (4D)
printing technique show great promise for advanced additive manufacturing of functional …

Self‐assembled peptide‐and protein‐based nanomaterials for antitumor photodynamic and photothermal therapy

M Abbas, Q Zou, S Li, X Yan - Advanced materials, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
Tremendous interest in self‐assembly of peptides and proteins towards functional
nanomaterials has been inspired by naturally evolving self‐assembly in biological …

Ring opening polymerization of α-amino acids: advances in synthesis, architecture and applications of polypeptides and their hybrids

AR Mazo, S Allison-Logan, F Karimi… - Chemical society …, 2020‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Polypeptides have attracted considerable attention in recent decades due to their inherent
biodegradability and tunable cytocompatibility. Macromolecular design in conjunction with …

Near-infrared inorganic nanomaterial-based nanosystems for photothermal therapy

Y Wang, HM Meng, Z Li - Nanoscale, 2021‏ - pubs.rsc.org
The development of robust materials for treating diseases through non-invasive
photothermal therapy (PTT) has attracted increasing attention in recent years. Among …

Synthetic polypeptides: from polymer design to supramolecular assembly and biomedical application

Z Song, Z Han, S Lv, C Chen, L Chen, L Yin… - Chemical Society …, 2017‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Synthetic polypeptides from the ring-opening polymerization of N-carboxyanhydrides
(NCAs) are one of the most important biomaterials. The unique features of these synthetic …

One-component multifunctional sequence-defined ionizable amphiphilic Janus dendrimer delivery systems for mRNA

D Zhang, EN Atochina-Vasserman… - Journal of the …, 2021‏ - ACS Publications
Efficient viral or nonviral delivery of nucleic acids is the key step of genetic nanomedicine.
Both viral and synthetic vectors have been successfully employed for genetic delivery with …

A nanoparticle-based strategy for the imaging of a broad range of tumours by nonlinear amplification of microenvironment signals

Y Wang, K Zhou, G Huang, C Hensley, X Huang… - Nature materials, 2014‏ - nature.com
Stimuli-responsive nanomaterials are increasingly important in a variety of applications such
as biosensing, molecular imaging, drug delivery and tissue engineering. For cancer …