Molecular photoswitches in aqueous environments

J Volarić, W Szymanski, NA Simeth… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Molecular photoswitches enable dynamic control of processes with high spatiotemporal
precision, using light as external stimulus, and hence are ideal tools for different research …

Multicharged cyclodextrin supramolecular assemblies

Z Liu, Y Liu - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Multicharged cyclodextrin (CD) supramolecular assemblies, including those based on
positively/negatively charged modified mono-6-deoxy-CDs, per-6-deoxy-CDs, and random …

Structurally dynamic hydrogels for biomedical applications: pursuing a fine balance between macroscopic stability and microscopic dynamics

K Zhang, Q Feng, Z Fang, L Gu, L Bian - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Owing to their unique chemical and physical properties, hydrogels are attracting increasing
attention in both basic and translational biomedical studies. Although the classical hydrogels …

Chemically modified biopolymers for the formation of biomedical hydrogels

VG Muir, JA Burdick - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Biopolymers are natural polymers sourced from plants and animals, which include a variety
of polysaccharides and polypeptides. The inclusion of biopolymers into biomedical …

Mechanically interlocked polymers based on rotaxanes

L Chen, X Sheng, G Li, F Huang - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The nature of mechanically interlocked molecules (MIMs) has continued to encourage
researchers to design and construct a variety of high-performance materials. Introducing …

[HTML][HTML] Hydrogel soft robotics

Y Lee, WJ Song, JY Sun - Materials Today Physics, 2020 - Elsevier
With the rapidly growing attention to human-robot interfaces, soft robotics has attracted a
great deal of interest. Soft robots have diverse advantages, including compliancy and safety …

Functional supramolecular polymeric networks: the marriage of covalent polymers and macrocycle-based host–guest interactions

D Xia, P Wang, X Ji, NM Khashab, JL Sessler… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Covalent polymers connected by non-covalent interactions constitute a fascinating set of
materials known as supramolecular polymer networks (SPNs). A key feature of SPNs is that …

Enlightening materials with photoswitches

A Goulet‐Hanssens, F Eisenreich… - Advanced Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Incorporating molecular photoswitches into various materials provides unique opportunities
for controlling their properties and functions with high spatiotemporal resolution using …

Recent advances in host–guest self‐assembled cyclodextrin carriers: Implications for responsive drug delivery and biomedical engineering

J Wankar, NG Kotla, S Gera, S Rasala… - Advanced Functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This Review is an overview of the unique characteristics of cyclodextrin in forming an
inclusion complex via host–guest noncovalent interactions. The modification of cyclodextrin …

Design and applications of photoresponsive hydrogels

L Li, JM Scheiger, PA Levkin - Advanced Materials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Hydrogels are the most relevant biochemical scaffold due to their tunable properties,
inherent biocompatibility, and similarity with tissue and cell environments. Over the past …