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Dynamic Bonds Enable Repair and Reprocessing of Glycol‐Modified PET

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Dynamic hindered urea bonds enable rapid healing in glycol‐modified PET‐based polyurethanes. Tuning the hindered‐amine content allows these polymers to balance mechanical integrity with fast repair, achieving complete scratch disappearance in 30 s at 130°C.
Chaninya Mak‐iad, José Augusto Berrocal, Georges J. M. Formon, Christoph Weder   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Structural transitions during the scaffolding-driven assembly of a viral capsid

Nature Communications, 2019
Viral assembly is a complex process that in tailed bacteriophages involves scaffolding proteins which coordinate assembly of the phage procapsid and are subsequently released during maturation.
Athanasios Ignatiou, Sandrine Brasilès, Mehdi El Sadek Fadel, Jörg Bürger, Thorsten Mielke, Maya Topf, Paulo Tavares, Elena V. Orlova   +7 more
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LL‐37 Driven Phase Transition and Stacking in Oligolamellar Gram‐Negative Bacterial Membrane Models

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This work establishes oligolamellar bacterial membrane models to investigate how LL‐37 disrupts the complex dual‐bilayer architecture of Gram‐negative bacteria. Combining SAXS, cryo‐TEM, electrophoretic mobility measurements, and coarse‐grained simulations, it reveals cardiolipin‐driven phase transitions leading to bicelle‐like structures and membrane ...
Bettina Tran, Diane C.A. Lima, Linda Sandblad, Madeleine Ramstedt, Thereza A. Soares, Stefan Salentinig   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Time-Resolved Cryo-Electron Microscopy: Recent Progress [PDF]

Journal of Structural Biology, 2017
Time-resolved cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) combines the known advantages of single-particle cryo-EM in visualizing molecular structure with the ability to dissect the time progress of a reaction between molecules in vitro. Here some of the recent progress of this methodology and its first biological applications are outlined.
openaire   +2 more sources

Structure Formation in Butterfly Scales: Interplay of Genetic Control, Mechanical Instabilities, and Dynamic Material Properties

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Butterfly wing scales are intricate cuticular functional nanosctructures. This perspective suggests that spatially varying material properties, cytoskeletal constraints, and growth‐driven mechanical instabilities shape the resulting nanoscale architectures created from single cells.
Anupama Prakash, Victoria Lloyd, Yi Yang, Anna‐Lee Jessop, Anthony McDougal, Primož Pirih, Guillaume Duclos, Andrew Parnell, Mathias Kolle, Nicola J. Nadeau, Bodo D. Wilts   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Common lines ab-initio reconstruction of $D_2$-symmetric molecules

, 2019
Cryo-electron microscopy is a state-of-the-art method for determining high-resolution three-dimensional models of molecules, from their two-dimensional projection images taken by an electron microscope. A crucial step in this method is to determine a low-
Rosen, Eitan, Shkolnisky, Yoel
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Toward Stable Multivalent Metal Batteries: Understanding the Interfacial Chemistry for Magnesium and Calcium Metal Anodes

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Interphase chemistry governs the stability of multivalent metal batteries. We summarize state‐of‐the‐art developments in calcium and magnesium metal batteries by focusing on the correlation among electrolytes, interphase layers, and the electrochemical performance of corresponding metal anodes.
Huijun Lin, Qi Meng, Juncai Long, Chuheng Cao, Zheng‐Long Xu   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Biocompatible but Antibacterial Mechanism of Graphene Oxide for Sustainable Antibiotics

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Graphene oxide (GO) exhibits selective antibacterial activity through specific interactions between its oxygen functional groups and bacterial membrane phospholipid POPG, causing membrane destabilization while maintaining biocompatibility. Model membrane studies and infected wound models in mice and pigs demonstrate effective bacterial suppression and ...
Sujin Cha, Ju Yeon Chung, Seungju Yang, Seung Cheol Lee, Chan Woo Lee, Colin Wing‐Lok Cheng, Jun Beom Kim, Nam Jun Kim, Ayoung Park, Heewon Choi, Junpyo Sinn, Ralph Weissleder, Nicholas A. Kotov, Myungeun Seo, Hyun Jung Chung, Sang Ouk Kim   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Self‐Assembled Nanoclay Gel With Spheroid MSC‐Derived Exosome Mimetics to Integrate Demineralized Bone Matrix and Noggin‐Targeting miRNA for Synergistic Osteogenesis

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
We report a versatile nanoclay gel carrier platform that enhances the osteogenic efficacy of demineralized bone matrix (DBM) by integrating nanoclay‐based self‐assembly with cell‐derived exosome mimetics loaded with noggin‐targeting miR‐200c. This design amplifies BMP signaling, thereby promoting DBM‐mediated osteogenesis and offering a promising ...
Changlu Xu, Zhi Li, Minjee Kang, Ruoyu Sheng, Bing Han, Yiqing Chen, Tara Aghaloo, Min Lee   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

CryoEM screening with a blotting instrument: quantifying parameters affecting ice thickness using semi-automated image analysis

Methods in Microscopy
Cryo-electron microscopy (cryoEM) grid preparation is one of the bottlenecks in using cryoEM for macromolecular structure determination. Despite significant advancements in the development of blot-free instruments, their high cost limits their widespread
Valimehr Sepideh, Cho Ellie, Brown Hamish G., McMillan Paul J., Hanssen Eric   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source