Food protein amyloid fibrils: Origin, structure, formation, characterization, applications and health implications

Y Cao, R Mezzenga - Advances in colloid and interface science, 2019 - Elsevier
Amyloid fibrils have traditionally been considered only as pathological aggregates in human
neurodegenerative diseases, but it is increasingly becoming clear that the propensity to form …

Self-assembling peptide and protein amyloids: from structure to tailored function in nanotechnology

G Wei, Z Su, NP Reynolds, P Arosio… - Chemical Society …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Self-assembled peptide and protein amyloid nanostructures have traditionally been
considered only as pathological aggregates implicated in human neurodegenerative …

Amyloid fibrils as building blocks for natural and artificial functional materials

TPJ Knowles, R Mezzenga - Advanced materials, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Proteinaceous materials based on the amyloid core structure have recently been discovered
at the origin of biological functionality in a remarkably diverse set of roles, and attention is …

Understanding nanocellulose chirality and structure–properties relationship at the single fibril level

I Usov, G Nyström, J Adamcik, S Handschin… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Nanocellulose fibrils are ubiquitous in nature and nanotechnologies but their mesoscopic
structural assembly is not yet fully understood. Here we study the structural features of rod …

Uniformly aligned flexible magnetic films from bacterial nanocelluloses for fast actuating optical materials

X Zhang, S Kang, K Adstedt, M Kim, R **ong… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Naturally derived biopolymers have attracted great interest to construct photonic materials
with multi-scale ordering, adaptive birefringence, chiral organization, actuation and …

FiberApp: an open-source software for tracking and analyzing polymers, filaments, biomacromolecules, and fibrous objects

I Usov, R Mezzenga - Macromolecules, 2015 - ACS Publications
Biological semiflexible polymers and filaments such as collagen, fibronectin, actin,
microtubules, coiled-coil proteins, DNA, siRNA, amyloid fibrils, etc., are ubiquitous in nature …

Aligned 2D carbon nanotube liquid crystals for wafer-scale electronics

KR **kins, SM Foradori, V Saraswat… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Semiconducting carbon nanotubes promise faster performance and lower power
consumption than Si in field-effect transistors (FETs) if they can be aligned in dense arrays …

Enhancement of emulsification properties by modulation of egg white protein fibril structure with different heating times

W Dong, X Zhang, L Ding, C Liu, M Ai, Y **, K Isobe… - Food …, 2023 - Elsevier
Egg white protein (EWP) has poor emulsification ability due to the hydrophobic groups
buried in the molecular structure. In contrast, the protein fibrils produced by acidic heat …

Development of pH-responsive emulsions stabilized by whey protein fibrils

F Cui, DJ McClements, X Liu, F Liu, T Ngai - Food Hydrocolloids, 2022 - Elsevier
Globular proteins can form fibrillar structures, for example, by heating them above their
thermal denaturation temperature under suitable pH (usually highly acidic) and ionic …

Adaptive liquid interfaces induce neuronal differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells through lipid raft assembly

X Jia, J Song, W Lv, JP Hill, J Nakanishi… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Stem cells and their microenvironment interact cooperatively to dictate their fates.
Biomaterials are dynamically remodeled by stem cells, and stem cells sense and translate …