Bifunctional nanomaterials for simultaneously improving cell adhesion and affecting bacterial biofilm formation on silicon-based surfaces.

In the biomedical field, silicon-based materials are widely used as implants, biomedical devices, and drug delivery systems. Although these materials show promise for implant technologies and clinical applications, many of them fail to simultaneously possess key properties, such as mechanical stability, biostability, stretchability, cell adhesiveness, biofilm inhibition, and drug delivery ability. Therefore, there is considerable need for the development and improvement of new biomaterials with improved properties.

Janus Nanocomposite Hydrogels for Chirality-Dependent Cell Adhesion and Migration.

Recently, there has been much interest in the chirality-dependent cell affinity to enantiomorphous nanomaterials (NMs), since, at the nanoscale level, enantiomers of (bio)molecules have different effects on cell behaviors. In this respect, this study used enantiomorphous NMs with which to generate the Janus nanocomposite (NC) hydrogels as multifunctional biomaterials for studying chirality-dependent cell adhesion and cell migration. These Janus NC hydrogels possess two enantiomorphous NC hydrogels, in which the different halves of the hydrogel contain the opposite enantiomers of a biopolymer functionalized nanomaterials.

Controlled Cell Growth and Cell Migration in Periodic Mesoporous Organosilica/Alginate Nanocomposite Hydrogels.

Nanocomposite (NC) hydrogels with different periodic mesoporous organosilica (PMO) concentrations and a NC hydrogel bilayer with various PMO concentrations inside the layers of the hydrogel matrix are prepared. The effect of the PMO concentration on cell growth and migration of cells is reported. The cells migrate in the bilayer NC hydrogel towards higher PMO concentrations and from cell culture plates to NC hydrogel scaffolds.

Fluorescent modular boron systems based on NNN- and ONO-tridentate ligands: self-assembly and cell imaging.

We have synthesized a series of new fluorescent boron systems 1a-c and 2a-d based on nitrogen (NNN) or nitrogen and oxygen (ONO)-containing tridentate ligands. These novel dyes are characterized by high thermal and chemical stability. They show large Stokes shifts (mostly above 3200 cm(-1)) and quantum yields in solution and in the solid state up to 40%.

Shape and release control of a peptide decorated vesicle through pH sensitive orthogonal supramolecular interactions.

A pH sensitive carrier is obtained by coating a cyclodextrin vesicle with an adamantane-terminated octapeptide through the formation of an inclusion complex. Upon lowering the pH from 7.4 to 5.

Functionalized phosphorus analogues of the beta-diketiminato ligand systems: bis(N-arylphosphinimino)acetonitrile-derived complexes of rhodium and iridium.

Staudinger reaction of dppm-CN (5) gave the corresponding bis(N-phenylphosphinimino)acetonitrile system (6). Deprotonation with LDA furnished the corresponding anionic ligand 9. Its reaction with [(CO)(2)RhCl](2) gave the corresponding kappa(2)N,N'-chelate complex 11.

Highly enantioselective reactions of configurationally labile epimeric diamine complexes of lithiated S-benzyl thiocarbamates.

Substitution reactions that employ primary-carbamoyl-protected arylmethanethiols are described. The enantiodetermining step was found to occur in the post-deprotonation step as a dynamic thermodynamic resolution with a chiral bis(oxazoline) ligand. The configurationally labile lithium complexes were trapped with various electrophiles to yield different substitution products in good to excellent yields and enantiomeric excesses.