Gold nanorods: the most versatile plasmonic nanoparticles

J Zheng, X Cheng, H Zhang, X Bai, R Ai… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Gold nanorods (NRs), pseudo-one-dimensional rod-shaped nanoparticles (NPs), have
become one of the burgeoning materials in the recent years due to their anisotropic shape …

Functionalizing DNA origami to investigate and interact with biological systems

GA Knappe, EC Wamhoff, M Bathe - Nature Reviews Materials, 2023 - nature.com
DNA origami has emerged as a powerful method to generate DNA nanostructures with
dynamic properties and nanoscale control. These nanostructures enable complex …

Half a century of amyloids: past, present and future

PC Ke, R Zhou, LC Serpell, R Riek… - Chemical Society …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Amyloid diseases are global epidemics with profound health, social and economic
implications and yet remain without a cure. This dire situation calls for research into the …

DNA origami: scaffolds for creating higher order structures

F Hong, F Zhang, Y Liu, H Yan - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
DNA has become one of the most extensively used molecular building blocks for
engineering self-assembling materials. DNA origami is a technique that uses hundreds of …

Self-assembling peptide and protein amyloids: from structure to tailored function in nanotechnology

G Wei, Z Su, NP Reynolds, P Arosio… - Chemical Society …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Self-assembled peptide and protein amyloid nanostructures have traditionally been
considered only as pathological aggregates implicated in human neurodegenerative …

Amyloid fibrils as building blocks for natural and artificial functional materials

TPJ Knowles, R Mezzenga - Advanced materials, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Proteinaceous materials based on the amyloid core structure have recently been discovered
at the origin of biological functionality in a remarkably diverse set of roles, and attention is …

DNA nanotechnology

NC Seeman, HF Sleiman - Nature Reviews Materials, 2017 - nature.com
DNA is the molecule that stores and transmits genetic information in biological systems. The
field of DNA nanotechnology takes this molecule out of its biological context and uses its …

DNA nanotechnology‐based biosensors and therapeutics

L Shen, P Wang, Y Ke - Advanced healthcare materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Over the past few decades, DNA nanotechnology engenders a vast variety of programmable
nanostructures utilizing Watson–Crick base pairing. Due to their precise engineering …

Placing and shaping liposomes with reconfigurable DNA nanocages

Z Zhang, Y Yang, F Pincet, MC Llaguno, C Lin - Nature chemistry, 2017 - nature.com
The diverse structure and regulated deformation of lipid bilayer membranes are among a
cell's most fascinating features. Artificial membrane-bound vesicles, known as liposomes …

Biointerface engineering with nucleic acid materials for biosensing applications

S Shi, J Chen, X Wang, M Xiao… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Molecular recognition at the biointerface plays a critical role in sensing molecular
interactions (eg, DNA hybridization) and extracellular changes, which can directly affect the …