Polypeptides have attracted considerable attention in recent decades due to their inherent
biodegradability and tunable cytocompatibility. Macromolecular design in conjunction with …

Nucleic acids are gaining significant attention as versatile building blocks for the next
generation of soft materials. Due to significant advances in the chemical synthesis and …

Regeneration after severe spinal cord injury cannot occur naturally in mammals.
Transplanting stem cells to the injury site is a highly promising method, but it faces many …

Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) stores genetic information as a biomolecule, and also is
regarded as a block copolymer and polyanion. Under favorable environments, DNA …

Conspectus Extracellular matrix (ECM) provides essential supports three dimensionally to
the cells in living organs, including mechanical support and signal, nutrition, oxygen, and …

In recent years, DNA has emerged as a fascinating building material to engineer hydrogel
due to its excellent programmability, which has gained considerable attention in biomedical …

Nanogels as a versatile vehicle for doxorubicin have attracted great attention during the last
decade. Since a nanogel composite device transport encapsulated drugs to the site of action …

Multi-triggered DNA/bipyridinium dithienylethene (DTE) hybrid carboxymethyl cellulose
(CMC)-based hydrogels are introduced. DTE exhibits cyclic and reversible …

Stimuli‐responsive designs with exogenous stimuli enable remote and reversible control of
DNA nanostructures, which break many limitations of static nanostructures and inspired …

A key objective in DNA-based material science is understanding and precisely controlling
the mechanical properties of DNA hydrogels. We perform microrheology measurements …