Surface Engineering of Polymer Hydrogels Toward Functional Soft Material Innovations
Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics, Volume 226, Issue 15, August 4, 2025.This review highlights recent advances in hydrogel surface engineering, emphasizing its critical role in enhancing hydrogel functionality for applications in biomedicine, soft robotics, and wearable technologies. It explores strategies to modify surface chemistry and architecture without altering bulk properties, enabling features such as spatial ...
Mengnan Zhang +3 more
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Synthesis, Characterization, and Catalytic Activity of Platinum Nanoparticles on Bovine-Bone Powder: A Novel Support [PDF]
, 2018 Pt nanoparticles supported on bovine-bone powder were obtained by a rather simple method consisting of immersing powder of bovine bone into a Pt+4 metal ion solution at room temperature and subsequent reduction by sodium borohydride.This method ...
ARGUETA FIGUEROA, LILIANA +11 more
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Responsive Materials, Volume 3, Issue 3, August 2025.This review comprehensively discusses intelligent peptide‐based nanomaterials from the design, mechanisms, properties, and applications, taking stimuli responsiveness as a starting point. Abstract Bacterial infections pose a major threat to human health as well as livestock production. Traditional antibiotics face significant limitations in the complex
Chenlong Zhou +8 more
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Interaction of micron and nano-sized particles with cells of the dura mater. [PDF]
, 2014 Intervertebral total disc replacements (TDR) are used in the treatment of degenerative spinal disc disease. There are, however, concerns that they may be subject to long-term failure due to wear.
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Benzochalcogenodiazoles, Synthesis, and Applications in Medicinal Chemistry and Photomedicine
European Journal of Organic Chemistry, Volume 28, Issue 23, June 23, 2025.Benzochalcogenodiazoles (BXD) including benzoxadiazoles, benzothiadiazoles, and benzoselenadiazoles are initially mainly designed for optoelectronic materials as electron‐deficient cores. Nevertheless, they are now extending their application to biology.
Jean‐Elie Zheng +2 more
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Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy: Near-Fields Acting on a Few Molecules
, 2012 Tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (TERS) is a very powerful variant of surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS). In a sense, TERS overcomes most of the drawbacks of SERS but keeps its advantages, such as its high sensitivity.
Pettinger, B. +3 more
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Effects of detergents on activity, thermostability and aggregation of immobilized lipases [PDF]
, 2014 Predmetom tejto diplomovej práce bolo štúdium vplyvu detergentov na aktivitu, termostabilitu a agregáciu voľnej a imobilizovanej formy komerčného preparátu lipázy izolovanej z mikroskopickej huby Rhizopus arrhizus. Teoretická časť obsahuje ucelenú rešerš
Bančáková, Anna
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Macrocycle-Functionalised SERS Substrates for Sensing Applications [PDF]
, 2020 Hierarchical aqueous self-assembly of gold nanoparticles (Au NPs) triggered by macrocyclic molecules, cucurbiturils (CBs), provides a facile method to fabricate surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) substrates for potential applications in homeland ...
Chio, Weng I Katherine
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Gold-coated superparamagnetic nanoparticles for single methyl discrimination in DNA aptamers [PDF]
, 2015 Au- and iron-based magnetic nanoparticles (NPs) are promising NPs for biomedical applications due to their unique properties. The combination of a gold coating over a magnetic core puts together the benefits from adding the magnetic properties to the ...
Aviñó, Anna +8 more
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Sub-10 nm near-field localization by plasmonic metal nanoaperture arrays with ultrashort light pulses [PDF]
Near-field localization by ultrashort femtosecond light pulses has been investigated using simple geometrical nanoapertures. The apertures employ circular, rhombic, and triangular shapes to localize the distribution of surface plasmon.
Kim, C, Kim, D, Lee, H
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