The Stoddart&rsquo / s blue box (BB) (cyclobis(paraquat-p-phenylene))/iodide binary system was recently demonstrated to give rise to porous three-dimensional networks which can hardly be classified as common XOF-type materials (X = M, C, S, i.e., metal, covalent, or supramolecular organic frameworks), leading to the definition of permutable organiz...
Published in Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems
The concept of an artificial corporeal machine that can reproduce has attracted the attention of researchers from various fields over the past century. Some have approached the topic with a desire to understand biological life and develop artificial versions; others have examined it as a potentially practical way to use material resources from the ...
A large-scale homogenized photonic nanojet array with defined pattern and spacing facilitates practical applications in super-resolution imaging, subwavelength-resolution nanopatterning, nano objects trapping and detection technology. In this paper, we present the fabrication of a large-scale photonic nanojet array via the template-assisted self-as...
The impact of preliminary treatment (mechanical abrasion / chemical etching and anodization in ionic liquid) on the surface structure and corrosion behavior of Fe70Cr15B15 metal glass was studied. The detachment of the anodic oxide film from untreated Fe-amorphous alloy under anodization in ionic liquid was observed for the first time. The formatio...
Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) are an important class of biotherapeutics / as of 2020, dozens are commercialized medicines, over a hundred are in clinical trials, and many more are in preclinical developmental stages. Therapeutic mAbs are sequence modified from the wild type IgG isoforms to varying extents and can have different intrinsic structural ...
A short self-assembly peptide A6K (H2N&minus / AAAAAAK&minus / OH) with unmodified N&minus / and C&minus / terminus was designed, and the charge distribution model of this short peptide at different pH was established by computer simulation. The pH of the solution was adjusted according to the model and the corresponding self-assembled structure wa...
Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is effective for molecular computation because of its high energy efficiency, high information density, and parallel-computing capability. Although logic implementation using DNA molecules is well established in binary systems (base value of 2) via decoration of hairpin structures on DNA duplexes, systems with base value...
Fluorescent emitters like ions, dye molecules or semiconductor nanoparticles are widely used in opto-electronic devices, usually within densely-packed layers. Their luminescence properties can then be very different from when they are isolated, because of short-range interparticle interactions such as Förster resonant energy transfer (FRET). Unders...
Published in ChemistryOpen
Thiophene‐based hexamers and octamers having the same identical tetrameric ‘sulfur‐overrich’ inner core acting as an interactional algorithm, spontaneously self‐assemble into surface‐independent, crystalline, nanostructured microfibers. The microfibers, rod‐like or helical depending on the packing forces induced by the groups linked to the inner co...
In this work, we have used low-molecular-weight (PEG12-b-PCL6, PEG12-b-PCL9 or PEG16-b-PLA38 / MW, 1.25&ndash / 3.45 kDa) biodegradable block co-polymers to construct nano- and micron-scaled hybrid (polymer/lipid) vesicles, by solvent dispersion and electroformation methods, respectively. The hybrid vesicles exhibit physical properties (size, bilay...
