DNA functional materials assembled from branched DNA: design, synthesis, and applications

Y Dong, C Yao, Y Zhu, L Yang, D Luo… - Chemical Reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
DNA is traditionally known as a central genetic biomolecule in living systems. From an
alternative perspective, DNA is a versatile molecular building-block for the construction of …

Tailoring DNA self-assembly to build hydrogels

J Chen, Y Zhu, H Liu, L Wang - DNA Nanotechnology: From Structure to …, 2020 - Springer
DNA hydrogels are crosslinked polymeric networks in which DNA is used as the backbone
or the crosslinker. These hydrogels are novel biofunctional materials that possess the …

Antagonistic enzymes in a biocatalytic pH feedback system program autonomous DNA hydrogel life cycles

L Heinen, T Heuser, A Steinschulte, A Walther - Nano Letters, 2017 - ACS Publications
Enzymes regulate complex functions and active behavior in natural systems and have
shown increasing prospect for developing self-regulating soft matter systems. Striving for …

One-step self-assembly of multifunctional DNA nanohydrogels: an enhanced and harmless strategy for guiding combined antitumor therapy

H Wei, Z Zhao, Y Wang, J Zou, Q Lin… - ACS applied materials & …, 2019 - ACS Publications
DNA nanostructure-based drug delivery system (DDS) has become an advanced
therapeutic strategy for cancer because of its unsurpassed editability, intrinsic …

Supramolecular biopolymers for tissue engineering

R Pérez-Pedroza, A Ávila-Ramírez… - Advances in Polymer …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Supramolecular biopolymers (SBPs) are those polymeric units derived from
macromolecules that can assemble with each other by noncovalent interactions …

Efficient transdermal delivery of DNA nanostructures alleviates atopic dermatitis symptoms in NC/Nga mice

G Yang, HE Lee, SW Shin, SH Um… - Advanced Functional …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
DNA nanostructures have been widely studied in biomedical research contributing to
targeted treatment of chronic diseases. The immunostimulatory XL‐DNA nanostructures of X …

mRNA-Producing Pseudo-nucleus System.

SW Shin, KS Park, WJ Shin, SH Um - Small (Weinheim an der …, 2015 - europepmc.org
A pseudo-eukaryotic nucleus (PEN) system consisting of a gene-containing DNA hydrogel
encapsulated in a liposome is fabricated. Owing to the structural characteristics of gene …

DNA-Based Bulk Hydrogel Materials and Biomedical Application

Y Gao, H Qi - Journal of Nanotechnology in …, 2015 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Being a natural polymer, DNA attracts extensive attention and possesses great potential to
open a new way for researches of biomedical or material science. In the past few decades …

Functional DNa Building Blocks and Their Hydrogel Scaffolds for Biomedical Applications

SW Shin, KS Park, SH Um - Handbook of Intelligent Scaffolds for …, 2017 - taylorfrancis.com
Over the past two decades, a variety of hydrogels have been developed; these materials
have been identified as one of the most promising for a large range of research and …

[PDF][PDF] Self-regulatin materials with transient lifetimes via internal feedback in PH

T Heuser, A Walther, M Möller - 2017 - publications.rwth-aachen.de
The forthcoming generation of soft materials will be designed to autonomously adapt to their
environment, in a way similar to living systems, in an active and self-regulating manner …