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Hierarchically structured bioinspired nanocomposites
This Review discusses recent progress in bioinspired nanocomposite design, emphasizing the role of hierarchical structuring at distinct length scales to create multifunctional, lightweight and robust structural materials for diverse technological applications.
- Dhriti Nepal
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Moving hydrogels to the fourth dimension
Materials that permit spatiotemporal control of biomolecule presentation have long been a challenge in the field. A method has now been developed to reversibly pattern cell-laden hydrogels with site-specifically immobilized proteins using sortase-mediated transpeptidation without compromising bioactivity.
- Jonathan H. Galarraga
- & Jason A. Burdick
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A pulpy story
Over-expression of a transcriptional factor, Alx3, has been shown to revitalize the regenerative capacity of adult progenitor cells to promote enhanced stromal vascularization and formation of parenchymal dental pulp tissue in vivo.
- Sarah E. Millar
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Bioactive site-specifically modified proteins for 4D patterning of gel biomaterials
A modular approach of photoreversible patterning of macromolecules with high spatiotemporal resolution within hydrogels is employed to generate biomaterials with controllable cell activity through site-specific immobilization of proteins.
- Jared A. Shadish
- , Gabrielle M. Benuska
- & Cole A. DeForest
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Phagocytosis-inspired behaviour in synthetic protocell communities of compartmentalized colloidal objects
Droplets with magnetite membranes are designed to engulf in a phagocytosis-inspired manner smaller colloidal objects, demonstrating a route for sequential cargo delivery and release followed by internalized reactions.
- Laura Rodríguez-Arco
- , Mei Li
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Materials for next-generation molecularly selective synthetic membranes
Liquid and gas purification using membrane materials permits a wide range of critical industrial processes, and here it is discussed how they might achieve molecular selectivity.
- William J. Koros
- & Chen Zhang
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Growing gold nanoprisms with light
An adsorbed polymer directs the photochemical growth of colloidal Au single-crystal nanoprisms following visible metal excitation.
- Louis Brus
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Nucleic acid memory
Nucleic acid memory has a retention time far exceeding electronic memory. As an alternative storage media, DNA surpasses the information density and energy of operation offered by flash memory.
- Victor Zhirnov
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Functional droplet networks
Tissue-mimicking printed networks of droplets separated by lipid bilayers that can be functionalized with membrane proteins are able to spontaneously fold and transmit electrical currents along predefined paths.
- Naside Gozde Durmus
- , Savas Tasoglu
- & Utkan Demirci
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Glycans' imprints
Networks of glycans template multiphase lipid membranes, either by stabilizing large domains at the characteristic length scale of the network if inhomogeneous, or by suppressing macroscopic phase separation if homogeneous.
- Jay T. Groves
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Fibrillar pharmacology
The mechanisms by which chemically functionalized carbon nanotubes flow in blood and are excreted through the kidneys illustrate the unconventional behaviour of these fibrillar nanostructures, and the opportunities they offer as components for the design of advanced delivery vehicles.
- Kostas Kostarelos
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Surface science goes inorganic
A plethora of chemical tools is necessary for probing the surface reconstruction of a complex metal oxide.
- Ulrike Diebold
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