Understanding and controlling the nucleation and growth of metal–organic frameworks

BP Carpenter, AR Talosig, B Rose… - Chemical Society …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Metal–organic frameworks offer a diverse landscape of building blocks to design high
performance materials for implications in almost every major industry. With this diversity …

Helix-induced asymmetric self-assembly of π-conjugated block copolymers: from controlled syntheses to distinct properties

N Liu, RT Gao, ZQ Wu - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2023 - ACS Publications
Conspectus π-Conjugated polymers have gained significant interest because of their
potential applications in optoelectronics, bioelectronics, and other domains. The controlled …

Operando Electron Microscopy of Catalysts: The Missing Cornerstone in Heterogeneous Catalysis Research?

SW Chee, T Lunkenbein, R Schlögl… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Heterogeneous catalysis in thermal gas-phase and electrochemical liquid-phase chemical
conversion plays an important role in our modern energy landscape. However, many of the …

Advanced imaging techniques for studying protein phase separation in living cells and at single-molecule level

G Mekonnen, N Djaja, X Yuan, S Myong - Current Opinion in Chemical …, 2023 - Elsevier
Protein-protein and protein-RNA interactions are essential for cell function and survival.
These interactions facilitate the formation of ribonucleoprotein complexes and biomolecular …

Using small angle scattering to understand low molecular weight gels

D McDowall, DJ Adams, AM Seddon - Soft Matter, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The material properties of a gel are determined by the underpinning network that
immobilises the solvent. When gels are formed by the self-assembly of small molecules into …

[HTML][HTML] Self-assembling peptide biomaterials: Insights from spontaneous and enhanced sampling molecular dynamics simulations

BJ Williams-Noonan, A Kamboukos… - Chemical Physics …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Peptide self-assembly is the process by which peptide molecules aggregate into low
dimensional (1D, 2D) or 3D ordered materials with potential applications ranging from drug …

Observation of liquid–liquid-phase separation and vesicle spreading during supported bilayer formation via liquid-phase transmission electron microscopy

A Rizvi, JT Mulvey, JP Patterson - Nano Letters, 2021 - ACS Publications
Liquid-phase transmission electron microscopy (LP-TEM) enables the real-time visualization
of nanoscale dynamics in solution. This technique has been used to study the formation and …

CryoEM reveals the complex self-assembly of a chemically driven disulfide hydrogel

PJ Hurst, JT Mulvey, RA Bone, S Selmani… - Chemical …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Inspired by the adaptability of biological materials, a variety of synthetic, chemically driven
self-assembly processes have been developed that result in the transient formation of …

The structure, preparation, characterization, and intercalation mechanism of layered hydroxides intercalated with guest anions

Z Chen, Q Fan, M Huang, H Cölfen - Small, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Since the intercalation of anions into layered hydroxides (LHs) has a great impact not only
on their nucleation and growth but also on their structure, composition, and size, the …

3D Visualization of Proteins within Metal–Organic Frameworks via Ferritin‐Enabled Electron Microscopy

R Dhaoui, SL Cazarez, L Xing… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Electron tomography holds great promise as a tool for investigating the 3D morphologies
and internal structures of metal‐organic framework‐based protein biocomposites (protein …