Viruses as biomaterials

T Yang, Y Chen, Y Xu, X Liu, M Yang, C Mao - Materials Science and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Viruses lacking the capacity to infect mammals exhibit minimal toxicity, good
biocompatibility, and well-defined structures. As self-organized biomolecular assemblies …

Recent progress on biomaterials fighting against viruses

S Li, X Guo, R Gao, M Sun, L Xu, C Xu… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Viruses not only pose severe threats to public health, but also influence the development of
society. Over the past decade, rapid advances have been seen in the application of …

Biomimetic nanomaterial strategies for virus targeting: Antiviral therapies and vaccines

JA Jackman, BK Yoon, L Ouyang… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic highlights the importance of
developing effective virus targeting strategies to treat and prevent viral infections. Since virus …

[HTML][HTML] A materials-science perspective on tackling COVID-19

Z Tang, N Kong, X Zhang, Y Liu, P Hu, S Mou… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
The ongoing SARS-CoV-2 pandemic highlights the importance of materials science in
providing tools and technologies for antiviral research and treatment development. In this …

Opportunities for biomaterials to address the challenges of COVID‐19

D Chakhalian, RB Shultz, CE Miles… - Journal of Biomedical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic has revealed major
shortcomings in our ability to mitigate transmission of infectious viral disease and provide …

Design rules for nanomedical engineering: from physical virology to the applications of virus-based materials in medicine

AM Wen, PH Rambhia, RH French… - Journal of biological …, 2013 - Springer
Physical virology seeks to define the principles of physics underlying viral infections,
traditionally focusing on the fundamental processes governing virus assembly, maturation …

Virus-derived materials: bury the hatchet with old foes

J Wu, H Wu, S Nakagawa, J Gao - Biomaterials science, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Although enormous attempts are being made to develop synthetic materials for biomedical
applications, more and more attention has been paid to bioderived materials due to their …

Biomedical nanoparticle design: What we can learn from viruses

SM Figueroa, D Fleischmann, A Goepferich - Journal of Controlled Release, 2021 - Elsevier
Viruses are nanomaterials with a number of properties that surpass those of many synthetic
nanoparticles (NPs) for biomedical applications. They possess a rigorously ordered …

Viruses and their uses in nanotechnology

P Singh, MJ Gonzalez… - Drug development …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
The use of materials derived from natural sources in materials science has allowed the
harnessing of complex structures resulting from eons of evolutionary fine‐tuning. A better …

Viruses, artificial viruses and virus‐based structures for biomedical applications

P van Rijn, R Schirhagl - Advanced healthcare materials, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Nanobiomaterials such as virus particles and artificial virus particles offer tremendous
opportunities to develop new biomedical applications such as drug‐or gene‐delivery …