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 …

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 …

Self‐assembled block copolymer aggregates: from micelles to vesicles and their biological applications

A Blanazs, SP Armes, AJ Ryan - Macromolecular rapid …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
The ability of amphiphilic block copolymers to self‐assemble in selective solvents has been
widely studied in academia and utilized for various commercial products. The self …

Self-assembled nanoreactors

DM Vriezema, M Comellas Aragonès… - Chemical …, 2005 - ACS Publications
In nature, chemical conversions take place in a confined environment and are closely
geared to each other such that the product of one reaction is the substrate or catalyst of the …

[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 …

Stimuli-responsive polymersomes for programmed drug delivery

F Meng, Z Zhong, J Feijen - Biomacromolecules, 2009 - ACS Publications
In the past decade, polymersomes (also referred to as polymeric vesicles) have attracted
rapidly growing interest based on their intriguing aggregation phenomena, cell and virus …

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 …

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 …