Supramolecular antibacterial materials for combatting antibiotic resistance

X Li, H Bai, Y Yang, J Yoon, S Wang… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Antibiotic‐resistant bacteria have emerged as a severe threat to human health. As effective
antibacterial therapies, supramolecular materials display unprecedented advantages …

Biomedically relevant self-assembled metallacycles and metallacages

H Sepehrpour, W Fu, Y Sun… - Journal of the American …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Diverse metal–organic complexes (MOCs), shaped as rectangles, triangles, hexagons,
prisms, and cages, can be formed by coordination between metal ions (Pt, Pd, Ru, Rh, Ir, Zn …

Supramolecular chirality in metal–organic complexes

J Dong, Y Liu, Y Cui - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2020 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Chirality is a pervasive structural feature of nature and crucial to the
organization and function of nearly all biological systems. At the molecular level, the biased …

Advancements in antimicrobial nanoscale materials and self-assembling systems

JA Doolan, GT Williams, KLF Hilton… - Chemical Society …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Antimicrobial resistance is directly responsible for more deaths per year than either
HIV/AIDS or malaria and is predicted to incur a cumulative societal financial burden of at …

Increasing the size and complexity of discrete 2D metallosupramolecules

H Wang, Y Li, N Li, A Filosa, X Li - Nature Reviews Materials, 2021 - nature.com
Owing to the reversible, directional and predictable nature of metal–ligand coordination,
coordination-driven self-assembly has emerged as a powerful bottom-up strategy for …

Coordination-assembled water-soluble anionic lanthanide organic polyhedra for luminescent labeling and magnetic resonance imaging

Z Wang, L He, B Liu, LP Zhou, LX Cai… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Lanthanide-containing functional complexes have found a variety of applications in
materials science and biomedicine because of their unique electroptical and magnetic …

[HTML][HTML] Combating antibiotic resistance: Current strategies for the discovery of novel antibacterial materials based on macrocycle supramolecular chemistry

L Gao, H Wang, B Zheng, F Huang - Giant, 2021 - Elsevier
In the fight of bacteria with human, bacteria have regained the upper hand by development
of antibiotic resistance. The emergence of resistance has outpaced the development of new …

Artificial metal–peptide assemblies: bioinspired assembly of peptides and metals through space and across length scales

J Dong, Y Liu, Y Cui - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2021 - ACS Publications
The exploration of chiral crystalline porous materials, such as metal–organic complexes
(MOCs) or metal–organic frameworks (MOFs), has been one of the most exciting recent …

Coordination-driven self-assembled metallacycles incorporating pyrene: fluorescence mutability, tunability, and aromatic amine sensing

X Chang, Z Zhou, C Shang, G Wang… - Journal of the …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Constructing polycyclic aromatics-based, highly emissive fluorophores with good solubility
and tunable aggregated structures and properties is of great importance for film fabrication …

Beyond platonic: how to build metal–organic polyhedra capable of binding low-symmetry, information-rich molecular cargoes

CT McTernan, JA Davies, JR Nitschke - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
The field of metallosupramolecular chemistry has advanced rapidly in recent years. Much
work in this area has focused on the formation of hollow self-assembled metal-organic …