Self-assembling peptide EAK16 and RADA16 nanofiber scaffold hydrogel

F Gelain, Z Luo, S Zhang - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Short peptides are ubiquitous in nature. They are found as hormones, pheromones,
antibacterial and antifungal agents in innate immunity systems, toxins, and pesticides. But …

Supramolecular hydrogelators and hydrogels: from soft matter to molecular biomaterials

X Du, J Zhou, J Shi, B Xu - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
In this review we intend to provide a relatively comprehensive summary of the work of
supramolecular hydrogelators after 2004 and to put emphasis particularly on the …

Analyte-responsive hydrogels: intelligent materials for biosensing and drug delivery

HR Culver, JR Clegg, NA Peppas - Accounts of chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Nature has mastered the art of molecular recognition. For example, using
synergistic non-covalent interactions, proteins can distinguish between molecules and bind …

[HTML][HTML] Biomedical applications of supramolecular systems based on host–guest interactions

X Ma, Y Zhao - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
The development of supramolecular chemistry dates back to 1987 when Lehn, Cram, and
Pedersen won the Nobel Prize on account of their leading discoveries in the host–guest …

Functional π-gelators and their applications

SS Babu, VK Praveen, A Ajayaghosh - Chemical reviews, 2014 - ACS Publications
Supramolecular chemistry originally defined by Lehn as “chemistry beyond molecules”
exploits noncovalent interactions between molecules to form 1D, 2D, and 3D …

Supramolecular polymeric hydrogels

EA Appel, J del Barrio, XJ Loh… - Chemical Society …, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
The supramolecular crosslinking of polymer chains in water by specific, directional and
dynamic non-covalent interactions has led to the development of novel supramolecular …

Nanocarrier-based systems for targeted and site specific therapeutic delivery

J Majumder, O Taratula, T Minko - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
Systemic drug delivery methods such as oral or parenteral administration of free drugs
possess relatively low treatment efficiency and marked adverse side effects. The use of …

High-water-content mouldable hydrogels by mixing clay and a dendritic molecular binder

Q Wang, JL Mynar, M Yoshida, E Lee, M Lee, K Okuro… - Nature, 2010 - nature.com
With the world's focus on reducing our dependency on fossil-fuel energy, the scientific
community can investigate new plastic materials that are much less dependent on petroleum …

Synthetic biomaterials as instructive extracellular microenvironments for morphogenesis in tissue engineering

MP Lutolf, JA Hubbell - Nature biotechnology, 2005 - nature.com
New generations of synthetic biomaterials are being developed at a rapid pace for use as
three-dimensional extracellular microenvironments to mimic the regulatory characteristics of …

Cancer cell death induced by the intracellular self-assembly of an enzyme-responsive supramolecular gelator

A Tanaka, Y Fukuoka, Y Morimoto… - Journal of the …, 2015 - ACS Publications
We report cancer cell death initiated by the intracellular molecular self-assembly of a peptide
lipid, which was derived from a gelator precursor. The gelator precursor was designed to …