Bio-inspired synthesis of metal nanomaterials and applications

J Huang, L Lin, D Sun, H Chen, D Yang… - Chemical Society …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
This critical review focuses on recent advances in the bio-inspired synthesis of metal
nanomaterials (MNMs) using microorganisms, viruses, plants, proteins and DNA molecules …

Engineered living materials for advanced diseases therapy

X Dong, W Wu, P Pan, XZ Zhang - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Natural living materials serving as biotherapeutics exhibit great potential for treating various
diseases owing to their immunoactivity, tissue targeting, and other biological activities. In this …

From prevention to diagnosis and treatment: Biomedical applications of metal nanoparticle-hydrogel composites

AJ Clasky, JD Watchorn, PZ Chen, FX Gu - Acta biomaterialia, 2021 - Elsevier
Recent advances in biomaterials integrate metal nanoparticles with hydrogels to generate
composite materials that exhibit new or improved properties. By precisely controlling the …

Bacteriophages and phage-inspired nanocarriers for targeted delivery of therapeutic cargos

M Karimi, H Mirshekari, SMM Basri, S Bahrami… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2016 - Elsevier
The main goal of drug delivery systems is to target therapeutic cargoes to desired cells and
to ensure their efficient uptake. Recently a number of studies have focused on designing bio …

Phage‐enabled nanomedicine: from probes to therapeutics in precision medicine

KS Sunderland, M Yang, C Mao - … Chemie International Edition, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Both lytic and temperate bacteriophages (phages) can be applied in nanomedicine, in
particular, as nanoprobes for precise disease diagnosis and nanotherapeutics for targeted …

Filamentous phages as building blocks for bioactive hydrogels

K Jackson, A Peivandi, M Fogal, L Tian… - ACS Applied Bio …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Filamentous bacteriophages (bacterial viruses) are semiflexible proteinous nanofilaments
with high aspect ratios for which the surface chemistry can be controlled with atomic …

Filamentous viruses as building blocks for hierarchical self-assembly toward functional soft materials

T Sawada, T Serizawa - Bulletin of the Chemical Society of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
This review describes the utilization of M13 phage, one of the filamentous viruses, for the
development of novel functional soft materials. Traditionally, M13 phage has been widely …

Designed fabrication of super-stiff, anisotropic hybrid hydrogels via linear remodeling of polymer networks and subsequent crosslinking

S Choi, J Kim - Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Super-stiff, anisotropic hybrid hydrogels were prepared via a linear remodeling of highly
stretchable alginate/polyacrylamide hydrogel networks followed by a secondary cross …

Exploring phage engineering to advance nanobiotechnology

H Jiang, Y Li, S Cosnier, M Yang, W Sun, C Mao - Materials Today Nano, 2022 - Elsevier
Phage is a human-safe bacteria-infecting virus assembled from proteins and nucleic acids,
enabling it to be genetically engineered to display functional peptides or proteins. It is also a …

M13 virus-enabled synthesis of titanium dioxide nanowires for tunable mesoporous semiconducting networks

PY Chen, X Dang, MT Klug… - Chemistry of …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Mesoporous semiconducting networks exhibit advantageous photoelectrochemical
properties. The M13 virus is a versatile biological scaffold that has been genetically …