Recent developments and practical feasibility of polymer‐based antifouling coatings

AMC Maan, AH Hofman, WM de Vos… - Advanced functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
While nature has optimized its antifouling strategies over millions of years, synthetic
antifouling coatings have not yet reached technological maturity. For an antifouling coating …

Stimuli-responsive polymers for sensing and actuation

L Hu, Q Zhang, X Li, MJ Serpe - Materials Horizons, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
The use of stimuli-responsive polymers in sensing technologies and for actuation has
garnered tremendous interest over the past few decades. This is mainly due to the myriad …

Artificial cell synthesis using biocatalytic polymerization-induced self-assembly

A Belluati, S Jimaja, RJ Chadwick, C Glynn… - Nature Chemistry, 2024 - nature.com
Artificial cells are biomimetic microstructures that mimic functions of natural cells, can be
applied as building blocks for molecular systems engineering, and host synthetic biology …

Tyrosine residues initiated photopolymerization in living organisms

M Zhu, S Wang, Z Li, J Li, Z Xu, X Liu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Towards intracellular engineering of living organisms, the development of new
biocompatible polymerization system applicable for an intrinsically non-natural …

Enzyme catalysis for reversible deactivation radical polymerization

R Li, W Kong, Z An - Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Enzyme catalysis has been increasingly utilized in reversible deactivation radical
polymerization (Enz‐RDRP) on account of its mildness, efficiency, and sustainability. In this …

Thermoresponsive polymer assemblies: from molecular design to theranostics application

SL Qiao, M Mamuti, HW An, H Wang - Progress in Polymer Science, 2022 - Elsevier
Molecule self-assembly is a ubiquitous phenomenon and a key driving force for constructing
nanostructures with diverse morphology and controllable size. Recently, interests in …

Temperature-responsive polymers: Synthesis, properties, and biomedical applications

S Qiao, H Wang - Nano Research, 2018 - Springer
Interest in temperature-responsive polymers has steadily grown over the past several
decades, and numerous studies have been dedicated to developing temperature sensitive …

Oxygen tolerant and cytocompatible Iron (0)-mediated ATRP enables the controlled growth of polymer brushes from mammalian cell cultures

A Layadi, B Kessel, W Yan, M Romio… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The use of zerovalent iron (Fe0)-coated plates, which act both as a source of catalyst and as
a reducing agent during surface-initiated atom transfer radical polymerization (SI-ATRP) …

Surface functionalization with polymer brushes via surface-initiated atom transfer radical polymerization: Synthesis, applications, and current challenges

Y Zhang, M Li, B Li, W Sheng - Langmuir, 2024 - ACS Publications
Polymer brushes have received great attention in recent years due to their distinctive
properties and wide range of applications. The synthesis of polymer brushes typically …

Enzymatically degassed surface-initiated atom transfer radical polymerization with real-time monitoring

LA Navarro, AE Enciso, K Matyjaszewski… - Journal of the …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Polymer brush coatings are frequently prepared by radical polymerization, a notoriously
oxygen sensitive process. Glucose oxidase (GOx) can inexpensively enable radical …