Carbohydrate-based macromolecular biomaterials

L Su, Y Feng, K Wei, X Xu, R Liu, G Chen - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Carbohydrates are the most abundant and one of the most important biomacromolecules in
Nature. Except for energy-related compounds, carbohydrates can be roughly divided into …

RAFT‐mediated polymerization‐induced self‐assembly

F d'Agosto, J Rieger, M Lansalot - … Chemie International Edition, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
After a brief history that positions polymerization‐induced self‐assembly (PISA) in the field of
polymer chemistry, this Review will cover the fundamentals of the PISA mechanism …

Polymersome-based protein drug delivery–quo vadis?

MG Gouveia, JP Wesseler, J Ramaekers… - Chemical Society …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Protein-based therapeutics are an attractive alternative to established therapeutic
approaches and represent one of the fastest growing families of drugs. While many of these …

Supramolecular chiral polymeric aggregates: Construction and applications

G Zhang, X Cheng, Y Wang, W Zhang - Aggregate, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Inspired by the mystery of natural homochirality, the design and construction of artificial
chiral systems with special functions including mechanics, chiroptical devices, and chiral …

A critical appraisal of RAFT-mediated polymerization-induced self-assembly

SL Canning, GN Smith, SP Armes - Macromolecules, 2016 - ACS Publications
Recently, polymerization-induced self-assembly (PISA) has become widely recognized as a
robust and efficient route to produce block copolymer nanoparticles of controlled size …

Polymerization-induced self-assembly of block copolymer nano-objects via RAFT aqueous dispersion polymerization

NJ Warren, SP Armes - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2014 - ACS Publications
In this Perspective, we discuss the recent development of polymerization-induced self-
assembly mediated by reversible addition–fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) aqueous …

50th Anniversary Perspective: Functional Nanoparticles from the Solution Self-Assembly of Block Copolymers

U Tritschler, S Pearce, J Gwyther, GR Whittell… - …, 2017 - ACS Publications
This Perspective outlines recent advances concerning the formation and potential uses of
block copolymer micelles, a class of soft-matter-based nanoparticles of growing importance …

Photoinitiated Polymerization‐Induced Self‐Assembly (Photo‐PISA): New Insights and Opportunities

J Yeow, C Boyer - Advanced Science, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The polymerization‐induced self‐assembly (PISA) process is a useful synthetic tool for the
efficient synthesis of polymeric nanoparticles of different morphologies. Recently, studies on …

New Insights into RAFT Dispersion Polymerization‐Induced Self‐Assembly: From Monomer Library, Morphological Control, and Stability to Driving Forces

X Wang, Z An - Macromolecular rapid communications, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Polymerization‐induced self‐assembly (PISA) has been established as an efficient, robust,
and versatile approach to synthesize various block copolymer nano‐objects with controlled …

Glycopolymer nanobiotechnology

Y Miura, Y Hoshino, H Seto - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
Molecular recognition plays an important role in living systems. 1, 2 Representative
molecular recognitions in living organisms are saccharide− protein, protein− protein, and …