Read the full article here: Adv. Mater. 2002332 (2020). by Guo, J., Haehnle, B.,Hoenders, D., Creusen, G. Jiao, D., Kuehne, A. J. K., Walther A. The tran sition toward future sustainable societies largely depends on disruptive innovations in biobased materials to substitute nonsustainable advanced functional materials. In the field of optics, advanced devices (e.g., lasers or metamaterial devices) are typically manufactured using top‐down engineering and synthetic materials.

Read the full article here: Nat. Nanotechnol.1856 (2020). by Samanta, A., Sabatino, V., Ward, T., Walther, A., For life to emerge, the confinement of catalytic reactions within protocellular environments has been proposed to be a decisive aspect to regulate chemical activity in space1. Today, cells and organisms adapt to signals2,3,4,5,6 by processing them through reaction networks that ultimately provide downstream functional responses and structural morphogenesis7,8. Re-ena

Read the full article here: J. Am. Chem. Soc. DOI:10.1021/jacs.0c05488 (2020). by Creusen, G., Oluwadunsin Akintayo, C., Schumann, K., Walther, A. Solid-phase oligonucleotide synthesis (SPOS) based on phosphoramidite chemistry is currently the most widespread technique for DNA and RNA synthesis but suffers from scalability limitations and high reagent consumption. Liquid-phase oligonucleotide synthesis (LPOS) uses soluble polymer supports and has the potential of being scalab

Read the full article here: Nat. Commun.11, 3658 (2020). by Jie, D., Walther, A. Biological systems organize multiple hierarchical structures in parallel, and create dynamic assemblies and functions by energy dissipation. In contrast, emerging artificial non-equilibrium self-assembling systems have remained relatively simplistic concerning hierarchical design, and non-equilibrium multi-component systems are uncharted territory. Here we report a modular DNA toolbox allowing to

Read the full article here: Nanoscale, 12, 16995 (2020). by Groeer, S., Walther, A. 3D DNA origami provide access to the de novo design of monodisperse and functional bio(organic) nanoparticles, and complement structural protein engineering and inorganic and organic nanoparticle synthesis approaches for the design of self-assembling colloidal systems. We show small 3D DNA origami nanoparticles, which polymerize and depolymerize reversibly to nanotubes of micrometer lengths by

Read the full article here: Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 59, DOI:10.1002/anie.202006526 (2020). by Sun, M., Jie, D,. Walther, A. Adaptivity is an essential trait of life. One type of adaptivity is the reconfiguration of a functional system states by correlating sensory inputs. We report polymer transformers, which can adaptively reconfigure their composition from a state of a mixed copolymer to being enriched in either monomer A or B. This is achieved by embedding and hierarchically

Read the full article here: Macromol. Rapid Commun. 2000191 (2020). by Gehlen, D. B., Jürgens, N., Omidinia‐Anarkoli, A., Haraszti, T., George, J., Walther, A., Ye, H., De Laporte, L. The replacement of diseased and damaged organs remains an challenge in modern medicine. However, through the use of tissue engineering techniques, it may soon be possible to (re)generate tissues and organs using artificial scaffolds. For example, hydrogel networks made from hydrophilic precursor

Read the full article here: Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 59, 1 (2020). by Lückerath, T., Koynov,K., Loescher, S., Whitfield, C. J., Nuhn, L., Walther, A., Barner-Kowollik, C., Ng, D., Weil, T. Nanostructures derived from amphiphilic DNA–polymer conjugates have emerged prominently due to their rich self‐assembly behavior; however, their synthesis is traditionally challenging. Here, we report a novel platform technology towards DNA–polymer nanostructures of various shapes by leveragin

Read the full article here: Polymers, 12, 1522 (2020) Recent advances in nanocellulose technology have revealed the potential of crystalline cellulose nanofibers to reinforce materials which are useful for tissue engineering, among other functions. However, the low biodegradability of nanocellulose can possess some problems in biomedical applications. In this work, alginate particles with encapsulated enzyme cellulase extracted fromTrichoderma reeseiwere prepared for the biod