Mussel-inspired chemistry: a promising strategy for natural polysaccharides in biomedical applications

F Liu, X Liu, F Chen, Q Fu - Progress in Polymer Science, 2021 - Elsevier
Polysaccharides are a kind of natural biopolymers and have been widely applied in various
fields, especially biomedical applications, due to their fascinating properties, such as …

Block copolymer solution self‐assembly: Recent advances, emerging trends, and applications

M Karayianni, S Pispas - Journal of Polymer Science, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The self‐assembly process of block copolymers (BCPs) in solution has been at the focus of
extended scientific research over the past several decades owing to the astonishing …

[HTML][HTML] Exploration and insights into the cellular internalization and intracellular fate of amphiphilic polymeric nanocarriers

S Mazumdar, D Chitkara, A Mittal - Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B, 2021 - Elsevier
The beneficial or deleterious effects of nanomedicines emerge from their complex
interactions with intracellular pathways and their subcellular fate. Moreover, the dynamic …

Porous polymer cubosomes with ordered single primitive bicontinuous architecture and their sodium–iodine batteries

L Xiang, S Yuan, F Wang, Z Xu, X Li… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Bicontinuous porous materials, which possess 3D interconnected pore channels facilitating
a smooth mass transport, have attracted much interest in the fields of energy and catalysis …

Progress in polymer single-chain based hybrid nanoparticles

Y Shao, Z Yang - Progress in Polymer Science, 2022 - Elsevier
Precise control of molecular hierarchical organization has endowed biological systems with
unique functions, which inspires great efforts in the synthesis of artificial mimics. Polymeric …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in permeable polymersomes: fabrication, responsiveness, and applications

Y Zhu, S Cao, M Huo, JCM van Hest, H Che - Chemical science, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Polymersomes are vesicular nanostructures enclosed by a bilayer-membrane self-
assembled from amphiphilic block copolymers, which exhibit higher stability compared with …

Degradable polymers via olefin metathesis polymerization

H Sun, Y Liang, MP Thompson… - Progress in polymer …, 2021 - Elsevier
The development of degradable polymers has commanded significant attention over the
past half century. Approaches have predominantly relied on ring-opening polymerization of …

Complex polymer architectures using ring-opening metathesis polymerization: synthesis, applications, and practical considerations

SE Blosch, SJ Scannelli, M Alaboalirat… - Macromolecules, 2022 - ACS Publications
Nature shows us that complex molecular architectures lead to unique material properties,
and these observations have driven polymer scientists to synthesize complex architectures …

Miktoarm star polymers: Synthesis and applications

M Liu, JR Blankenship, AE Levi, Q Fu… - Chemistry of …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Polymers with precisely controlled structure and function are in high demand across a
diverse array of applications spanning the life sciences and nanotechnology. One …

The Fluorocarbene Exploit: Enforcing Alternation in Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization

K Tashiro, M Akiyama, K Kashiwagi… - Journal of the American …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Fluoroalkenes are known to be notoriously reluctant substrates for olefin metathesis due to
the generation of thermodynamically stable Fischer-type fluorocarbene intermediates, which …