Gitashree Darabdhara, Manash R. Das, Volodymyr Turcheniuk, Kostiantyn Turcheniuk, Vladimir Zaitsev, Rabah Boukherroub and Sabine Szunerits
{"title":"Expression of concern: Reduced graphene oxide nanosheets decorated with AuPd bimetallic nanoparticles: a multifunctional material for photothermal therapy of cancer cells","authors":"Gitashree Darabdhara, Manash R. Das, Volodymyr Turcheniuk, Kostiantyn Turcheniuk, Vladimir Zaitsev, Rabah Boukherroub and Sabine Szunerits","doi":"10.1039/D4TB90185A","DOIUrl":"10.1039/D4TB90185A","url":null,"abstract":"<p >Expression of concern for ‘Reduced graphene oxide nanosheets decorated with AuPd bimetallic nanoparticles: a multifunctional material for photothermal therapy of cancer cells’ by Gitashree Darabdhara <em>et al.</em>, <em>J. Mater. Chem. B</em>, 2015, <strong>3</strong>, 8366–8374, https://doi.org/10.1039/C5TB01704A.</p>","PeriodicalId":83,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Materials Chemistry B","volume":" 1","pages":" 355-355"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2025/tb/d4tb90185a?page=search","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142788213","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fatima Halouane, Roxana Jijie, Dalila Meziane, Chengnan Li, Santosh K. Singh, Julie Bouckaert, Jean Jurazek, Sreekumar Kurungot, Alexandre Barras, Musen Li, Rabah Boukherroub and Sabine Szunerits
{"title":"Expression of concern: Selective isolation and eradication of E. coli associated with urinary tract infections using anti-fimbrial modified magnetic reduced graphene oxide nanoheaters","authors":"Fatima Halouane, Roxana Jijie, Dalila Meziane, Chengnan Li, Santosh K. Singh, Julie Bouckaert, Jean Jurazek, Sreekumar Kurungot, Alexandre Barras, Musen Li, Rabah Boukherroub and Sabine Szunerits","doi":"10.1039/D4TB90186J","DOIUrl":"10.1039/D4TB90186J","url":null,"abstract":"<p >Expression of concern for ‘Selective isolation and eradication of <em>E. coli</em> associated with urinary tract infections using anti-fimbrial modified magnetic reduced graphene oxide nanoheaters’ by Fatima Halouane <em>et al.</em>, <em>J. Mater. Chem. B</em>, 2017, <strong>5</strong>, 8133–8142, https://doi.org/10.1039/C7TB01890H.</p>","PeriodicalId":83,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Materials Chemistry B","volume":" 1","pages":" 356-356"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2025/tb/d4tb90186j?page=search","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142782277","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Expression of concern: Particle-based photodynamic therapy based on indocyanine green modified plasmonic nanostructures for inactivation of a Crohn's disease-associated Escherichia coli strain","authors":"Roxana Jijie, Tetiana Dumych, Li Chengnan, Julie Bouckaert, Kostiantyn Turcheniuk, Charles-Henri Hage, Laurent Heliot, Benoit Cudennec, Nicoleta Dumitrascu, Rabah Boukherroub and Sabine Szunerits","doi":"10.1039/D4TB90194K","DOIUrl":"10.1039/D4TB90194K","url":null,"abstract":"<p >Expression of concern for ‘Particle-based photodynamic therapy based on indocyanine green modified plasmonic nanostructures for inactivation of a Crohn's disease-associated <em>Escherichia coli</em> strain’ by Roxana Jijie <em>et al.</em>, <em>J. Mater. Chem. B</em>, 2016, <strong>4</strong>, 2598–2605, https://doi.org/10.1039/C5TB02697K.</p>","PeriodicalId":83,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Materials Chemistry B","volume":" 1","pages":" 357-357"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2025/tb/d4tb90194k?page=search","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142782272","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction to targeted biomedical applications of nanomaterials","authors":"Dhiraj Bhatia, Mukesh Dhanka, Anjali Awasthi, Kamlendra Awasthi and Kaushik Chatterjee","doi":"10.1039/D4TB90187H","DOIUrl":"10.1039/D4TB90187H","url":null,"abstract":"<p >This new collection in <em>Journal of Materials Chemistry B</em>, <em>Nanoscale</em>, <em>Materials Advances</em> and <em>Nanoscale Advances</em> will focus on the design of multifunctional hybrid nanomaterials for different applications and on interfacing nanomaterials with biological systems for translational studies.</p>","PeriodicalId":83,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Materials Chemistry B","volume":" 1","pages":" 12-14"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142782291","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Correction: Understanding selective sensing of human serum albumin using a D–π–A probe: a photophysical and computational approach","authors":"Anamika Bandyopadhyay and Anupam Bhattacharya","doi":"10.1039/D4TB90195A","DOIUrl":"10.1039/D4TB90195A","url":null,"abstract":"<p >Correction for ‘Understanding selective sensing of human serum albumin using a D–π–A probe: a photophysical and computational approach’ by Anamika Bandyopadhyay <em>et al.</em>, <em>J. Mater. Chem. B</em>, 2024, <strong>12</strong>, 10719–10735, https://doi.org/10.1039/D4TB01229A.</p>","PeriodicalId":83,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Materials Chemistry B","volume":" 47","pages":" 12400-12400"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2024/tb/d4tb90195a?page=search","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142712280","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Michele Valeo, Sébastien Marie, Murielle Rémy, Tiphaine Menguy, Cédric Le Coz, Michael Molinari, Cécile Feuillie, Fabien Granier and Marie-Christine Durrieu
{"title":"Bioactive hydrogels based on lysine dendrigrafts as crosslinkers: tailoring elastic properties to influence hMSC osteogenic differentiation†","authors":"Michele Valeo, Sébastien Marie, Murielle Rémy, Tiphaine Menguy, Cédric Le Coz, Michael Molinari, Cécile Feuillie, Fabien Granier and Marie-Christine Durrieu","doi":"10.1039/D4TB01578A","DOIUrl":"10.1039/D4TB01578A","url":null,"abstract":"<p >Dendrigrafts are multivalent macromolecules with less ordered topology and higher branching than dendrimers. Exhibiting a high density of terminal amines, poly-<small>L</small>-lysine dendrigrafts of the fifth generation (DGL G5) allow hydrogel formation with tailorable crosslinking density and surface modification. This work presents DGL G5 as multifunctional crosslinkers in biomimetic PEG hydrogels to favour the osteogenic differentiation of human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs). DGL G5 reaction with dicarboxylic-acid PEG chains yielded amide networks of variable stiffness, measured at the macro and surface nanoscale. Oscillatory rheometry and compression afforded consistent values of Young's modulus, increasing from 8 to more than 30 kPa and correlating with DGL G5 concentration. At the surface level, AFM measurements showed the same tendency but higher <em>E</em> values, from approximately 15 to more than 100 kPa, respectively. To promote cell adhesion and differentiation, the hydrogels were functionalised with a GRGDSPC peptide and a biomimetic of the bone morphogenetic protein 2 (BMP-2), ensuring the same grafting concentrations (between 2.15 ± 0.54 and 2.28 ± 0.23 pmols mm<small><sup>−2</sup></small>) but different hydrogel stiffness. 6 h after seeding on functionalised hydrogels in serum-less media, hMSC showed nascent adhesions on the stiffer gels and greater spreading than on glass controls with serum. After two weeks in osteogenic media, hMSC seeded on the stiffer gels showed greater spreading, more polygonal morphologies and increased levels of osteopontin, an osteoblast marker, compared to controls, which peaked on 22 kPa-gels. Together, these results demonstrate that DGL G5-PEG hydrogel bioactivity can influence the adhesion, spreading and early commitment of hMSCs.</p>","PeriodicalId":83,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Materials Chemistry B","volume":" 48","pages":" 12508-12522"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2024/tb/d4tb01578a?page=search","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142689982","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multi-responsive shape memory and self-healing hydrogels with gold and silver nanoparticles†","authors":"Hüsna Kılıç and Deniz Ceylan","doi":"10.1039/D4TB01720J","DOIUrl":"10.1039/D4TB01720J","url":null,"abstract":"<p >Nanocomposite smart gels (Nc-<em>x</em>) with self-healing and shape memory properties were designed in different types and size nano particles with temperature or light stimuli. Nc-<em>x</em> networks were prepared by bulk polymerization of stearyl methacrylate (SM) and vinyl pyrrolidone (VP) in the presence of gold and silver nanoparticles. The structure, which does not contain any chemical cross-linkers, is held together by hydrophobic interactions while consisting of dipole–dipole bonds of the VP units and long alkyl groups in the side chains of the SM. Thanks to their crystalline regions, shape memory gels can self-heal with the presence of long hydrophobic chains, and furthermore, the nanoparticles (NPs) incorporated into the structure facilitate the controlled tuning of hydrophilic and hydrophobic properties. Nc-<em>x</em> gels have the ability to self-heal by repairing mechanical damage independently or in the presence of a stimulus, as well as transforming from a temporary form to a permanent form. <em>In vitro</em> experiments on human skin fibroblast cells revealed that cell viability was over 100% after 48 hours and almost complete recovery was observed in scratch experiments at the end of this period. Based on the results obtained, Nc-<em>x</em> gels have been shown to have the potential to be used as a non-invasive wound dressing material alternative to traditional wound closure methods.</p>","PeriodicalId":83,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Materials Chemistry B","volume":" 1","pages":" 336-353"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142650451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Experimental and computational techniques to investigate the protein resistance of zwitterionic polymers","authors":"Mengyu Lu and Nan Cheng","doi":"10.1039/D4TB01782J","DOIUrl":"10.1039/D4TB01782J","url":null,"abstract":"<p >Most surfaces undergo non-specific protein adsorption upon direct contact with protein-containing environments, resulting in the formation of a protein corona, and the nature and composition of the corona affect the properties of the material. Zwitterionic polymers have oppositely charged groups in their repeating units, which facilitate the formation of a hydration layer on the surface through electrostatic interactions. The hydration layer possesses a strong water-binding ability and can prevent protein adsorption. Therefore, the hydration effect of zwitterionic polymers has become a research focus, and many researchers have investigated this mechanism using experimental and computational methods. This paper reviews the experimental techniques and simulation methods to study the hydration effect of zwitterionic polymers and the advantages and disadvantages of different techniques are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":83,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Materials Chemistry B","volume":" 1","pages":" 103-116"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142634077","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Feifan Yin, Zhiqiang Hou, Yanheng Yao, Miao He, Yang Xiang and Zhongyun Wang
{"title":"Enzyme-free and highly sensitive detection of human epidermal growth factor receptor-2 based on MNAzyme signal amplification in breast cancer†","authors":"Feifan Yin, Zhiqiang Hou, Yanheng Yao, Miao He, Yang Xiang and Zhongyun Wang","doi":"10.1039/D4TB01813C","DOIUrl":"10.1039/D4TB01813C","url":null,"abstract":"<p >As a common cancer biomarker, human epidermal growth factor receptor-2 (HER2) is highly expressed in breast cancer. Consequently, developing a simple and accurate HER2 sensing platform is of great significance for early diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer. Herein, we developed a rapid enzyme-free fluorescent assay biosensor based on MNAzyme signal amplification for breast cancer biomarker, HER2. The MNAzyme consists of multiple parts, including complementary DNA (cDNA) and two parts of DNAzyme (partzyme A/B). Initially, cDNA is blocked by combining with the HER2 aptamer to form a double-stranded DNA. When HER2 is present, cDNA is released as a result of the binding between HER2 and its aptamer. Due to the complementary sequences among cDNA and partzyme A/B, the MNAzyme is successfully assembled to cleave the substrate, recovering the fluorescence output. The MNAzyme biosensor exhibited a low detection limit of 0.02 ng mL<small><sup>−1</sup></small> and excellent selectivity. Furthermore, the proposed biosensor can also change the recognition element by changing the aptamer sequence to detect various biomarkers, holding great potential for cancer diagnosis and other related biomedical applications.</p>","PeriodicalId":83,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Materials Chemistry B","volume":" 1","pages":" 305-311"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142633831","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}