Hydrogen-bonded supramolecular adhesives: Synthesis, responsiveness, and application
December 2023
Adhesive bonding to diverse substances is vital to a great number of the established, cutting-edge and emerging applications. We have witnessed, in the last few years, the transformative progress in...
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Engineering coacervate droplets towards the building of multiplex biomimetic protocells
December 2022
The origin of life on Earth remains one of the biggest open questions in science. Despite recent advances in molecular mechanism of cell biology, a large blind spot still exists between non-living matter...
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Stimuli-responsive hydrogel sponge for ultrafast responsive actuator
December 2022
lA thermo-responsive PNIPAm hydrogel sponge with locally aggregated PNIPAm polymer network was constructed with the assistance of ice crystals.lThe PNIPAm hydrogel sponge can realize ultrafast de-swelling/swelling...
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Perylene diimide supramolecular aggregates: Constructions and sensing applications
December 2023
Perylene diimides (PDIs) with high fluorescence quantum yield and well π-conjugated plane have been widely studied to construct supramolecular aggregates via noncovalent interactions and to further...
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Exploring chemical space and structural diversity of supramolecular peptide materials
December 2023
Searching chemical space and expanding the structural diversity of supramolecular self-assembly based on the development of combinatorial libraries is significant to the guided design of bio-inspired...
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Visualizing polymer diffusion in hydrogel self-healing
December 2022
Self-healing hydrogels are attractive to extend material lifetime by rapid recovery from damage; the underlying healing mechanism regarding polymer diffusion are of broad research interest. However,...
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Interfacial self-assembly of nanoparticles into macroscopic, monolayered films
December 2022
This article offers an overview of recent advances in directing self-assembly of nanoparticles (NPs) at the interfaces between two immiscible fluids, which is aimed at emphasizing that the fluidic interfaces...
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Progress for the development of antibacterial surface based on surface modification technology
December 2022
With the increasing requirement for antibacterial surface especially in biomedical apparatus, constructing the new material surface with bactericidal activity for combating the infection caused by multi-resistant...
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Behavior of supramolecular cross-links formed by host-guest interactions in hydrogels responding to water contents
December 2022
Reversible or movable cross-links based on host-guest interactions in supramolecular materials create functions such as enhanced mechanical properties and stimulus responsiveness. A supramolecular complex...
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Supramolecular microgels/microgel scaffolds for tissue repair and regeneration
December 2022
Biomedical microgels are a novel type of materials with promising perspectives for repair and regeneration of multi-types of tissues and organs due to their highly hydrated nature, tunable microporous...
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Quantifying cation-π interactions in marine adhesive proteins using single-molecule force spectroscopy
December 2022
In marine adhesives, cation-π interactions play an important role in their liquid-liquid phase separation process and underlying their strong interfacial bonding. However, it remains challenging to...
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Discrete terpyridine-lanthanide molecular and supramolecular complexes
December 2022
Integrating the advantages of terpyridine (tpy) ligands with excellent chromophoric sensitization ability and lanthanides (Lns) with characteristic luminescent and magnetic properties, discrete terpyridine-lanthanide...
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Converting microscale linear to rotary motion in kinesin-powered systems
December 2022
Converting linear to rotary motion is a typical and enabling task for macroscale machinery, but the process is not yet established at the nano- and microscale. Linear motion is generated by the motor...
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Light-induced assembly of colloidal nanoparticles based on photo-controlled metal–ligand coordination
December 2022
Self-assembly of colloidal nanoparticles is a promising approach for the fabrication of functional materials. Zeta potential strongly influences the self-assembly processes of nanoparticles. Light-induced...
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Reconfigurable structured liquids
December 2022
The past decades have witnessed the discovery and rapid development of adaptable, reconfigurable all-liquid systems where, by the interfacial assembly and jamming of nanoparticles (NPs), a liquid-liquid...
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Coupling an artificial receptor with macrophage membrane for targeted and synergistic treatment of cholestasis
December 2022
•Amphiphilic calix[4]arene (AmC4A) is synthesized to bind toxic bile acids (BAs) in a high affinity.•Establishment of a therapeutic platform based upon co-assembly of macrophage membrane and AmC4A.•Ursodeoxycholic...
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Self-assembly of fibril-forming histidine-rich peptides for cofactor-free oxidase-mimetic catalysis
December 2022
Most oxidases rely on the cofactors for catalyzing the electron transfer reactions, while tend to suffer from externally-induced protein unfolding, cofactor dissociation and nonrecovery of the activities....
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Multicolor fluorescent supramolecular adhesive gels based on a single molecule with aggregation-induced ratiometric emission
December 2022
Multicolor fluorescent materials, showing various fluorescent colors at the same time, have been applied in biomimetic materials, sensor arrays, and information storage. However, the vast majority of...
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Metallacycle-crosslinked supramolecular polymers constructed by amino–YNE click reaction with enhanced mechanical properties
December 2022
Supramolecular polymers based on supramolecular coordination complexes (SCCs) have received extensive attention because of their good stimulus responsiveness, processability and other properties. Herein,...
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Light controlled drug-based supramolecular polymer self-assemblies for efficient antibacterial manipulation
December 2022
The infections and diseases caused by harmful bacteria are regarded as the worldwide health-threatening issue. The most antibiotics-based delivery systems restricted the controlled drug release at specific...
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Dynamic structural controlment for the functionalization of polyelectrolyte multilayer films
December 2022
Polyelectrolyte multilayer films (PEMs) fabricated from the layer-by-layer (LbL) assembly technique have attracted wide interests in the past several decades. Driven and stabilized by electrostatic...
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Supramolecular materials: dynamic, responsive, adaptive
December 2022
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Multicomponent coassembled nanodrugs based on ovalbumin, pheophorbide a and Zn2+ for in vitro photodynamic therapy
December 2022
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) has been considered as a therapeutic method based on non-invasiveness and lower side effect. However, photosensitizers (PS), as a major component of PDT, suffer from aggregation...
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In situ supramolecular self-assembly for alleviating multidrug resistance in cancer
December 2023
Drug resistance is one of the major causes of cancer treatment failures. In recent years, to combat the issue of drug resistance, a large volume of strategies has been established along the development...
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