Reversible Wide‐Range Tuneable Luminescence of a Dual‐Stimuli‐ Responsive Silver Cluster‐Assembled Material

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (11) ◽  
pp. 1120-1124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiao‐Hong Ma ◽  
Jia‐Yin Wang ◽  
Jun‐Jie Guo ◽  
Zhao‐Yang Wang ◽  
Shuang‐Quan Zang
Keyword(s):  
Silver Cluster ◽  
Stimuli Responsive ◽  
Wide Range

scholarly journals Cover Picture: Reversible Wide‐Range Tuneable Luminescence of a Dual‐Stimuli‐ Responsive Silver Cluster‐Assembled Material (Chin. J. Chem. 11/2019)

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (11) ◽  
pp. 1101-1101
Author(s):  
Xiao‐Hong Ma ◽  
Jia‐Yin Wang ◽  
Jun‐Jie Guo ◽  
Zhao‐Yang Wang ◽  
Shuang‐Quan Zang
Keyword(s):  
Silver Cluster ◽  
Stimuli Responsive ◽  
Wide Range

scholarly journals Thermo- and Photoresponsive Behaviors of Dual-Stimuli-Responsive Organogels Consisting of Homopolymers of Coumarin-Containing Methacrylate

Polymers ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 329
Author(s):  
Seidai Okada ◽  
Eriko Sato
Keyword(s):  
Functional Group ◽  
Solution Temperature ◽  
Stimuli Responsive ◽  
Critical Solution Temperature ◽  
Equilibrium Degree ◽  
Stimuli Responsive Polymers ◽  
Responsive Polymers ◽  
Dual Functional ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Increasing Temperature

Coumarin-containing vinyl homopolymers, such as poly(7-methacryloyloxycoumarin) (P1a) and poly(7-(2′-methacryloyloxyethoxy)coumarin) (P1b), show a lower critical solution temperature (LCST) in chloroform, which can be controlled by the [2 + 2] photochemical cycloaddition of the coumarin moiety, and they are recognized as monofunctional dual-stimuli-responsive polymers. A single functional group of monofunctional dual-stimuli-responsive polymers responds to dual stimuli and can be introduced more uniformly and densely than those of dual-functional dual-stimuli-responsive polymers. In this study, considering a wide range of applications, organogels consisting of P1a and P1b, i.e., P1a-gel and P1b-gel, respectively, were synthesized, and their thermo- and photoresponsive behaviors in chloroform were investigated in detail. P1a-gel and P1b-gel in a swollen state (transparent) exhibited phase separation (turbid) through a temperature jump and reached a shrunken state (transparent), i.e., an equilibrium state, over time. Moreover, the equilibrium degree of swelling decreased non-linearly with increasing temperature. Furthermore, different thermoresponsive sites were photopatterned on the organogel through the photodimerization of the coumarin unit. The organogels consisting of homopolymers of coumarin-containing methacrylate exhibited unique thermo- and photoresponsivities and behaved as monofunctional dual-stimuli-responsive organogels.

scholarly journals Encapsulation and Ultrasound-Triggered Release of G-Quadruplex DNA in Multilayer Hydrogel Microcapsules

Polymers ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 1342 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron Alford ◽  
Brenna Tucker ◽  
Veronika Kozlovskaya ◽  
Jun Chen ◽  
Nirzari Gupta ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nucleic Acids ◽  
Defense Mechanisms ◽  
The Body ◽  
Stimuli Responsive ◽  
Triggered Release ◽  
Quadruplex Dna ◽  
Nucleic Acid Therapeutics ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
G Quadruplex ◽  
Hydrogel Capsules

Nucleic acid therapeutics have the potential to be the most effective disease treatment strategy due to their intrinsic precision and selectivity for coding highly specific biological processes. However, freely administered nucleic acids of any type are quickly destroyed or rendered inert by a host of defense mechanisms in the body. In this work, we address the challenge of using nucleic acids as drugs by preparing stimuli responsive poly(methacrylic acid)/poly(N-vinylpyrrolidone) (PMAA/PVPON)n multilayer hydrogel capsules loaded with ~7 kDa G-quadruplex DNA. The capsules are shown to release their DNA cargo on demand in response to both enzymatic and ultrasound (US)-triggered degradation. The unique structure adopted by the G-quadruplex is essential to its biological function and we show that the controlled release from the microcapsules preserves the basket conformation of the oligonucleotide used in our studies. We also show that the (PMAA/PVPON) multilayer hydrogel capsules can encapsulate and release ~450 kDa double stranded DNA. The encapsulation and release approaches for both oligonucleotides in multilayer hydrogel microcapsules developed here can be applied to create methodologies for new therapeutic strategies involving the controlled delivery of sensitive biomolecules. Our study provides a promising methodology for the design of effective carriers for DNA vaccines and medicines for a wide range of immunotherapies, cancer therapy and/or tissue regeneration therapies in the future.

scholarly journals Reversible Protein Capture and Release by Redox-Responsive Hydrogel in Microfluidics

Polymers ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 267
Author(s):  
Chen Jiao ◽  
Franziska Obst ◽  
Martin Geisler ◽  
Yunjiao Che ◽  
Andreas Richter ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Microfluidic Device ◽  
Disulfide Bonds ◽  
Stimuli Responsive ◽  
Disulfide Exchange ◽  
Protein Capture ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Redox Responsive ◽  
Potential Applications ◽  
Capture And Release ◽  
Cross Linker

Stimuli-responsive hydrogels have a wide range of potential applications in microfluidics, which has drawn great attention. Double cross-linked hydrogels are very well suited for this application as they offer both stability and the required responsive behavior. Here, we report the integration of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNiPAAm) hydrogel with a permanent cross-linker (N,N′-methylenebisacrylamide, BIS) and a redox responsive reversible cross-linker (N,N′-bis(acryloyl)cystamine, BAC) into a microfluidic device through photopolymerization. Cleavage and re-formation of disulfide bonds introduced by BAC changed the cross-linking densities of the hydrogel dots, making them swell or shrink. Rheological measurements allowed for selecting hydrogels that withstand long-term shear forces present in microfluidic devices under continuous flow. Once implemented, the thiol-disulfide exchange allowed the hydrogel dots to successfully capture and release the protein bovine serum albumin (BSA). BSA was labeled with rhodamine B and functionalized with 2-(2-pyridyldithio)-ethylamine (PDA) to introduce disulfide bonds. The reversible capture and release of the protein reached an efficiency of 83.6% in release rate and could be repeated over 3 cycles within the microfluidic device. These results demonstrate that our redox-responsive hydrogel dots enable the dynamic capture and release of various different functionalized (macro)molecules (e.g., proteins and drugs) and have a great potential to be integrated into a lab-on-a-chip device for detection and/or delivery.

A Dual‐Stimuli‐Responsive Coordination Network Featuring Reversible Wide‐Range Luminescence‐Tuning Behavior

2019 ◽  
Vol 58 (17) ◽  
pp. 5614-5618 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhao‐Quan Yao ◽  
Jian Xu ◽  
Bo Zou ◽  
Zhenpeng Hu ◽  
Kai Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Stimuli Responsive ◽  
Coordination Network ◽  
Wide Range

Systematic evaluation of pH and thermoresponsive poly(n-isopropylacrylamide-chitosan-fluorescein) microgel

e-Polymers ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 399-408 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pedro Hernández ◽  
Armando Lucero-Acuña ◽  
Cindy Alejandra Gutiérrez-Valenzuela ◽  
Ramón Moreno ◽  
Reynaldo Esquivel
Keyword(s):  
Biomedical Application ◽  
Systematic Evaluation ◽  
Molar Ratio ◽  
Solution Temperature ◽  
Stimuli Responsive ◽  
Scanning Calorimetry ◽  
Molar Ratios ◽  
Stimuli Responsive Polymers ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Low Molecular Weight Chitosan

AbstractThe interesting properties of stimuli-responsive polymers lead to a wide range of possibilities in design and engineering of functional material for the biomedical application. A systematic approach focused on the evaluation of the physical properties of multiresponse (pH and temperature) PNIPAM was reported in this work. The effect of three different molar ratios of poly(n-isopropylacrylamide): chitosan (1:49, 1:99 and 1:198) were evaluated and labeled correspondingly as PC1F, PC2F, and PC3F. An increase in the lower critical solution temperature (LCST) of sample PC1F (34°C) was observed by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). The presence of low molecular weight chitosan (LMWC) full-interpenetrating polymer (Full-IPN) segments in poly(n-isopropylacrylamide) was confirmed by Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR). The hydrogel’s water capture was analyzed by two models of swelling, the power law model and a model that considers the relaxation of polymeric chains of the hydrogel, finding good correlations with experimental data in both cases. Sample PC3F resulted with higher swellability, increasing the weight of the hydrogel around seven times. Hydrogel pH-sensibility was confirmed placing the samples at different pH environments, with an apparent increase in swellability for acidic conditions, confirming the highest swellability for sample PC3F, due to hydrogen bonds boosted by chitosan high molar ratio. Based on these results, the hydrogel obtained has potential as a thermo-pH triggered hydrogel in drug delivery applications.

Color Tuneable Bio-Sensor Made Up From Stimuli-Responsive Nanoparticles

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 06-07
Author(s):  
Aashish Agarwal
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Visible Region ◽  
Biological Response ◽  
Health Care Industry ◽  
Clinical Analysis ◽  
Electrical Signal ◽  
Stimuli Responsive ◽  
Care Industry ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Protein Sensor

A biosensor is a device that is made up of transducer and biological elements [1-3]. The biological elements can be proteins, enzymes or antibodies [1]. The biological elements interact with the analyte which convert the biological response to an electrical signal. So usually biosensor consists of a biological component (acting as a sensor) and an electrical component (for detecting and transmitting the signal). Biosensors have a wide range of applications in different areas of science such as health care industry, clinical analysis and diagnosis of disease and agriculture [4]. In particular, there is a growing interest to prepare bio-sensor using different types of nanomaterials such as gold nanoparticles, carbon nanotubes, quantum dots, etc. [4].In the current proposal, we plan to prepare a low cost protein-sensor using polymeric stimuli-responsive nanoparticles based on diffraction principle. Moreover, this sensor will have a switchable functionality towards pH, temperature and electric field and also can be used with high accuracy of proteins detection based on a simple diffraction principle in the visible region. Since the awareness regarding health and wellbeing is increasing day by day in the global population, the use of biosensors in diagnostics is also simultaneously growing. Thus we believe that our proposed protein sensor based on diffraction principle will also have a popular demand in health care industry. 

scholarly journals A non-structural pure enzyme protein forms a LCST type of stimuli-responsive and reversible hydrogel with novel structure and catalytic activity

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Nie ◽  
X. Zhang ◽  
Y. Liu ◽  
M.A. Schroer ◽  
W. Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Catalytic Activity ◽  
Electrostatic Interactions ◽  
Molecular Engineering ◽  
Solution Temperature ◽  
Stimuli Responsive ◽  
Electron Microscopic ◽  
Saxs Data ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Protein Hydrogels ◽  
Terminal Domains

AbstractHydrogels have a wide range of applications such as in biomedicine, cosmetics and soft electronics. Compared to polymer hydrogels based on covalent bonding, protein hydrogels offer distinct advantages owing to their biocompatibility and better access to molecular engineering. However, pure and natural protein hydrogels have been seldom reported except for structural proteins like collagen and silk fibrin. Here, we report the unusual ability and mechanism of a unique natural enzyme, lipoate-protein ligase A (LplA) of E. coli to self-assemble into a stimuli-responsive and reversible hydrogel of the low critical solution temperature (LCST) type. This is the first globular and catalytic protein found to form a hydrogel in response to temperature, pH and the presence of ions. Protein structure based analysis reveals the key residues responsible for the gel formation and mutational studies confirms the essential roles of hydrogen bonding between the C-terminal domains and electrostatic interactions in the N-terminal domains. Characterization of phase transitions of wild type LplA and its mutants using small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) yields details of the gelation process from initial dimer formation over a pre-gel-state to full network development. Further electron microscopic analyses and modeling of SAXS data suggest an unusual interlinked ladder-like structure of the macroscopic crosslinking network with dimers as ladder steps. The unique features of this first reported protein hydrogel may open up hitherto inaccessible applications, especially those taking advantage of the inherent catalytic activity of LplA.

scholarly journals Atomically precise nanoclusters with reversible isomeric transformation for rotary nanomotors

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhaoxian Qin ◽  
Jiangwei Zhang ◽  
Chongqing Wan ◽  
Shuang Liu ◽  
Hadi Abroshan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Rational Design ◽  
Great Promise ◽  
Stimuli Responsive ◽  
Scanning Calorimetry ◽  
Isomeric Transformation ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Intelligent Devices ◽  
Stimuli Response ◽  
Thermal Stimuli ◽  
Two Temperature

AbstractThermal-stimuli responsive nanomaterials hold great promise in designing multifunctional intelligent devices for a wide range of applications. In this work, a reversible isomeric transformation in an atomically precise nanocluster is reported. We show that biicosahedral [Au13Ag12(PPh3)10Cl8]SbF6 nanoclusters composed of two icosahedral Au7Ag6 units by sharing one common Au vertex can produce two temperature-responsive conformational isomers with complete reversibility, which forms the basis of a rotary nanomotor driven by temperature. Differential scanning calorimetry analysis on the reversible isomeric transformation demonstrates that the Gibbs free energy is the driving force for the transformation. This work offers a strategy for rational design and development of atomically precise nanomaterials via ligand tailoring and alloy engineering for a reversible stimuli-response behavior required for intelligent devices. The two temperature-driven, mutually convertible isomers of the nanoclusters open up an avenue to employ ultra-small nanoclusters (1 nm) for the design of thermal sensors and intelligent catalysts.

scholarly journals One-pot synthesis of oxidation-sensitive supramolecular gels and vesicles

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aroa Duro-Castano ◽  
Laura Rodriguez-Arco ◽  
Lorena Ruiz-Perez ◽  
Cesare De Pace ◽  
Gabriele Marchello ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Self Assembly ◽  
Biomedical Applications ◽  
Stimuli Responsive ◽  
Sustained Drug Release ◽  
One Pot ◽  
Physiological Conditions ◽  
One Pot Synthesis ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Spherical Micelles ◽  
The One

Polypeptide-based nanoparticles offer unique advantages from a nanomedicine perspective such as biocompatibility, biodegradability and stimuli-responsive properties to (patho)physiological conditions. Conventionally, self-assembled polypeptide nanostructures are prepared by first synthesizing their constituent amphiphilic polypeptides followed by post-polymerization self-assembly. Herein, we describe the one-pot synthesis of oxidation-sensitive supramolecular micelles and vesicles. This was achieved by polymerization-induced self-assembly (PISA) of the N-carboxyanhydride (NCA) precursor of methionine using polyethylene oxide as stabilizing and hydrophilic block in dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO). By adjusting the hydrophobic block length and concentration we obtained a range of morphologies from spherical to worm-like micelles, to vesicles. Remarkably, the secondary structure of polypeptides greatly influenced the final morphology of the assemblies. Surprisingly, worm-like micellar morphologies were obtained for a wide range of methionine block lengths and solid contents, with spherical micelles restricted to very short hydrophobic lengths. Worm-like micelles further assembled into oxidation-sensitive, self-standing gels in the reaction pot. Both vesicles and worm-like micelles obtained using this method demonstrated to degrade under controlled oxidant conditions which would expand their biomedical applications such as in sustained drug release or as cellular scaffolds in tissue engineering.

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