Comprehensive review on ultrasound-responsive theranostic nanomaterials: mechanisms, structures and medical applications

• Sepand Tehrani Fateh,
• Lida Moradi,
• Elmira Kohan,
• Michael R. Hamblin and
• Amin Shiralizadeh Dezfuli

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2021, 12, 808–862, doi:10.3762/bjnano.12.64

Recombinant DNA technology and click chemistry: a powerful combination for generating a hybrid elastin-like-statherin hydrogel to control calcium phosphate mineralization

• Mohamed Hamed Misbah,
• Mercedes Santos,
• Luis Quintanilla,
• Christina Günter,
• Matilde Alonso,
• Andreas Taubert and
• José Carlos Rodríguez-Cabello

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 772–783, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.80

• broad and rather non-descript signals that are also observed in many samples are presumably due to the presence of the ELR gel phase, which is still present in these materials. Figure 4 shows the IR spectra of the IK24- and H3AH3-based hydrogels, with the bands at around 1628, 1518, and 1233 cm−1 being

Peptide-equipped tobacco mosaic virus templates for selective and controllable biomineral deposition

• Klara Altintoprak,
• Axel Seidenstücker,
• Alexander Welle,
• Sabine Eiben,
• Petia Atanasova,
• Nina Stitz,
• Alfred Plettl,
• Joachim Bill,
• Hartmut Gliemann,
• Holger Jeske,
• Dirk Rothenstein,
• Fania Geiger and
• Christina Wege

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 1399–1412, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.145

• applied: both samples did not migrate into the gel phase to a sufficient extent. Zeta potential measurement The zeta potentials (ZPs) of TMV–Lys nanorods and their derivatives were determined using a Malvern NanoSizer at a virus particle concentration of 0.5 mg/mL in ultrapure water (ddH2O) and in 30 mM

Intake of silica nanoparticles by giant lipid vesicles: influence of particle size and thermodynamic membrane state

• Florian G. Strobl,
• Florian Seitz,
• Christoph Westerhausen,
• Armin Reller,
• Adriano A. Torrano,
• Christoph Bräuchle,
• Achim Wixforth and
• Matthias F. Schneider

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 2468–2478, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.256

• models and indicate that these models have to be extended in order to capture the interaction between nanomaterials and biological membranes correctly. Keywords: cells; endocytosis; engulfment; fission; gel phase; giant unilamellar lipid vesicles (GUV); lipid membranes; liquid phase; nanoparticle

• species with ζ = −50 mV. The uptake of particles was also tested for GUVs in their gel phase state. The investigated lipid compositions were DMPC at a temperature of 15 °C and an equimolar mixture of DMPC and 1,2-dipalmitoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DPPC) at room temperature (phase transition regime

• magnitude. In most cases, this should represent a good measure of the particle uptake rate. However, for the case of the 123 nm particles and gel phase vesicles this has to be questioned, since an adhesion with only partial wrapping will also consume membrane area. Thus the actual uptake rate will be lower

Nanobioarchitectures based on chlorophyll photopigment, artificial lipid bilayers and carbon nanotubes

• Marcela Elisabeta Barbinta-Patrascu,
• Stefan Marian Iordache,
• Ana Maria Iordache,
• Nicoleta Badea and
• Camelia Ungureanu

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 2316–2325, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.240

• biomimetic membranes (above 41 °C) exhibits low anisotropy and high fluorescence emission intensity due to an increase in the lipid bilayer mobility and hence the chlorophyll has the possibility to move and to minimize the energy transfer leading to fluorescence quenching. In the gel phase of the artificial

Controlling mechanical properties of bio-inspired hydrogels by modulating nano-scale, inter-polymeric junctions

• Seonki Hong,
• Hyukjin Lee and
• Haeshin Lee

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 887–894, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.101

• parameter. A poly(tetrafluoroethylene) (PTFE) surface was set up at a 45° slope angle, and drops of 6Arm-PEG-NH-catechol (Figure 3d, right) and 6Arm-PEG-catechol (Figure 3d, left) solutions were applied to observe the gelation time. The PEG solution flowed in the liquid phase but stopped in the gel phase