El-Shafai, Nagi M Farrag, Foad Shukry, Mustafa Mehany, Hany Aboelmaati, Mohamed Abu-Ali, Ola Saleh, Dalia Ramadan, Mohamed El-Mehasseb, Ibrahim
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Biological trace element research
The self-assembly of cisplatin (Cis-Pt) and chitosan nanoparticles (Cs NPs) has been synthesized and characterized successfully by different analyses and techniques, such as scanning electron microscopy, ultraviolet-visible spectrophotometry, and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. The efficiency of loading Cis-Pt on Cs NPs for decreasing the ...
Samateh, Malick Marwaha, Siddharth James, Jose K Nanda, Vikas John, George
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Carbohydrate research
Sucralose differs from sucrose only by virtue of having three Cl groups instead of OH groups. Its intriguing features include being noncaloric, noncariogenic, ∼600 times sweeter than sucrose, stable at high temperatures/acidic pH's, and void of disagreeable aftertastes. These properties are attractive as food additive, one of which is as hydrogel o...
Andriamiseza, Faniry Bordignon, Delphine Payré, Bruno Vaysse, Laurence Fitremann, Juliette
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Journal of colloid and interface science
We have shown earlier that low molecular weight gels based on N-heptyl-d-galactonamide hydrogels can be 3D printed by solvent exchange, but they tend to dissolve in the printing bath. We wanted to explore the printing of less soluble N-alkyl-d-galactonamides with longer alkyl chains. Less soluble hydrogels could be good candidates as cell culture s...
Xi, Yuyin Zhang, Fan Ma, Yuanchi Prabhu, Vivek M. Liu, Yun
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Nature Communications
Structural colors are often produced by periodic structured materials leading to the constructive interference of light waves. Here, the authors report control of structural color and light transmission via a colloidal gel and dynamic coloration with a precise wavelength selectivity over a broad range of wavelengths by taking advantage of the Chris...
Lei, Ye Li, Zhaoyong Wu, Guangcheng Zhang, Lijie Tong, Lu Tong, Tianyi Chen, Qiong Wang, Lingxiang Ge, Chenqi Wei, Yuxi
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Nature Communications
The self-assembly of molecular knots in water is challenging. Here, authors report the self-assembly of a trefoil knot in water via imine condensation, without relying on external templates; the handedness of the trefoil knot is determined by the chirality of the bisamino precursor.
Han, Yifei Zhang, Xiaolong Ge, Zhiqing Gao, Zhao Liao, Rui Wang, Feng
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Nature Communications
Sequential energy transfer is ubiquitous in natural light harvesting systems, but most artificial mimics have unsatisfactory energy transfer efficiency. Here, authors synthesize a sequential energy transfer system with overall efficiency of 87.4% via supramolecular copolymerization mimicking the aggregation mode of bacteriochlorophyll pigments in g...
Dorival, Jonathan Moraïs, Sarah Labourel, Aurore Rozycki, Bartosz Cazade, Pierre-Andre Dabin, Jérôme Setter-Lamed, Eva Mizrahi, Itzhak Thompson, Damien Thureau, Aurélien
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Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts
Background Natural cellulosome multi-enzyme complexes, their components, and engineered ‘designer cellulosomes’ (DCs) promise an efficient means of breaking down cellulosic substrates into valuable biofuel products. Their broad uptake in biotechnology relies on boosting proximity-based synergy among the resident enzymes, but the modular architectur...
Hou, Yong Zou, Linjun Li, Qinglong Chen, Meiying Ruan, Haonan Sun, Zhaocui Xu, Xudong Yang, Junshan Ma, Guoxu
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Materials Today Bio
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Parker, Richard M. Zhao, Tianheng H. Frka-Petesic, Bruno Vignolini, Silvia
When pursuing sustainable approaches to fabricate photonic structures, nature can be used as a source of inspiration for both the nanoarchitecture and the constituent materials. Although several biomaterials have been promised as suitable candidates for photonic materials and pigments, their fabrication processes have been limited to the small to m...
Kumar, Sunit Maurya, Yogesh Kumar Lis, Tadeusz Stępień, Marcin
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Nature Communications
The preparation of heterodimeric structures via self-assembly processes is challenging. Here, the authors report the photooxidation of a donor–acceptor metalloporphyrin, which enables a self-sorting process that yields an heterodimer quantitatively.
