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Highly stable, antiviral, antibacterial cotton textiles via molecular engineering
An antiviral and antibacterial cotton textile based on a fundamentally different principle of incorporating copper ions into the cotton structure at the atomic level is fabricated with excellent air/water retainability and superior mechanical stability.
- Ji Qian
- , Qi Dong
- & Liangbing Hu
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A high-performance hydroxide exchange membrane enabled by Cu2+-crosslinked chitosan
A Cu2+-crosslinked chitosan material with unique 1 nm hexagonal nanochannels is synthesized and applied as a high-performance and alkaline-stable hydroxide exchange membrane.
- Meiling Wu
- , Xin Zhang
- & Liangbing Hu
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Programming multi-protein assembly by gene-brush patterns and two-dimensional compartment geometry
Gene brushes patterned as synthetic operons on two-dimensional silicon compartments with defined geometry allow the investigation and regulation of nanoscale multi-protein assemblies.
- Ohad Vonshak
- , Yiftach Divon
- & Roy H. Bar-Ziv
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Transformable peptide nanoparticles arrest HER2 signalling and cause cancer cell death in vivo
HER2-targeting peptide-based micelles transform into nanofibrils on binding to HER2 on cancer cells, triggering cancer cell apoptosis and tumour death in vivo.
- Lu Zhang
- , Di Jing
- & Kit S. Lam
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Catalytic site-selective substrate processing within a tubular nanoreactor
Site-selective chemistry is performed on a polymer confined and extended in a nanotube by controlling the spatial alignment of the reactive groups.
- Yujia Qing
- , Hiroko Tamagaki-Asahina
- & Hagan Bayley
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Tunable thermal transport and reversible thermal conductivity switching in topologically networked bio-inspired materials
Thermal conductivity in a proteinaceous semi-crystalline material can be modulated by more than three times upon hydration and dehydration cycles.
- John A. Tomko
- , Abdon Pena-Francesch
- & Patrick E. Hopkins
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Dry but flexible magnetic materials
Freeze-dried cellulose nanofibres from bacteria can act as templates for making highly flexible, porous and lightweight magnetic aerogels and stiff magnetic nanopaper.
- Damien Faivre
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Making flexible magnetic aerogels and stiff magnetic nanopaper using cellulose nanofibrils as templates
Bacterial cellulose is used as templates to make highly flexible and lightweight magnetic aerogels and stiff magnetic nanopaper that are useful as responsive actuators and functional magnetic materials.
- R. T. Olsson
- , M. A. S. Azizi Samir
- & U. W. Gedde
Single-molecule analysis of DNA base-stacking energetics using patterned DNA nanostructures