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By Dr Cheng Cao
Journal articles
, 2024, 'Maximizing Aqueous Drug Encapsulation: Small Nanoparticles Formation Enabled by Glycopolymers Combining Glucose and Tyrosine', Journal of the American Chemical Society, 146, pp. 8120 - 8130, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jacs.3c12502
, 2024, 'Regulating the structural polymorphism and protein corona composition of phytantriol-based lipid nanoparticles using choline ionic liquids', Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 657, pp. 841 - 852, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcis.2023.12.005
, 2024, 'Effects of Drug Conjugation on the Biological Activity of Single-Chain Nanoparticles', Biomacromolecules, 25, pp. 675 - 689, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.biomac.3c00862
, 2023, 'Peptide-Conjugated Micelles Make Effective Mimics of the TRAIL Protein for Driving Apoptosis in Colon Cancer', Biomacromolecules, 24, pp. 5046 - 5057, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.biomac.3c00668
, 2023, 'Exploring the Effect of Drug Loading on the Biological Fate of Polymer-Coated Solid Nanoparticles', Chemistry of Materials, 35, pp. 4471 - 4488, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.3c00644
, 2023, 'Drug-Loading Content Influences Cellular Uptake of Polymer-Coated Nanocellulose', Molecular Pharmaceutics, 20, pp. 2017 - 2028, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.2c00997
, 2023, 'Increased Drug-Loading Enhances the Activity of Ellipticine in Poly(N-(2-hydroxypropyl) Methacrylamide) PHPMA-Based Polymeric Micelles in 2D and 3D Cancer Cell Models', Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics, 224, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/macp.202200179
, 2022, 'Traceless pH-Sensitive Antibody Conjugation Inspired by Citraconic Anhydride', Biomacromolecules, 23, pp. 5322 - 5329, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.biomac.2c01125
, 2022, 'Controlling the Biological Behaviors of Polymer-Coated Upconverting Nanoparticles by Adjusting the Linker Length of Estrone Ligands', Biomacromolecules, 23, pp. 2572 - 2585, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.biomac.2c00265
, 2022, 'Sugar-induced self-assembly of curcumin-based polydopamine nanocapsules with high loading capacity for dual drug delivery', Nanoscale, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d2nr01795d
, 2021, 'The Protein Corona Leads to Deformation of Spherical Micelles', Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, 60, pp. 10342 - 10349, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie.202101129
, 2021, 'The Protein Corona Leads to Deformation of Spherical Micelles', Angewandte Chemie, 133, pp. 10430 - 10437, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ange.202101129
, 2021, 'Optimizing the Polymer Cloak for Upconverting Nanoparticles: An Evaluation of Bioactivity and Optical Performance', ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 13, pp. 16142 - 16154, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsami.1c01922
, 2020, 'Polyion Complex-Templated Synthesis of Cross-Linked Single-Enzyme Nanoparticles', Macromolecules, 53, pp. 5487 - 5496, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.0c00528
, 2020, 'Drug-Directed Morphology Changes in Polymerization-Induced Self-Assembly (PISA) Influence the Biological Behavior of Nanoparticles', ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 12, pp. 30221 - 30233, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsami.0c09054
, 2019, 'Just add sugar for carbohydrate induced self-assembly of curcumin', Nature Communications, 10, pp. 582, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08402-y
, 2019, 'Poly(4-vinyl imidazole): A pH-Responsive Trigger for Hierarchical Self-Assembly of Multicompartment Micelles Based upon Triblock Terpolymers', Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics, 220, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/macp.201900131
, 2019, 'Polymorphic Transformation of Drugs Induced by Glycopolymeric Vesicles Designed for Anticancer Therapy Probed by Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy', ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 11, pp. 28278 - 28288, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsami.9b05514
, 2019, 'Correlation between Drug Loading Content and Biological Activity: The Complexity Demonstrated in Paclitaxel-Loaded Glycopolymer Micelle System', Biomacromolecules, 20, pp. 1545 - 1554, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.biomac.8b01707
, 2019, 'Correlation between polymer architecture and polyion complex micelle stability with proteins in spheroid cancer models as seen by light-sheet microscopy', Polymer Chemistry, 10, pp. 1221 - 1230, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c8py01565a
, 2019, 'Importance of Polymer Length in Fructose-Based Polymeric Micelles for an Enhanced Biological Activity', Macromolecules, 52, pp. 477 - 486, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.8b02381
, 2019, 'Length of the Stabilizing Zwitterionic Poly(2-methacryloyloxyethyl phosphorycholine) Block Influences the Activity of the Conjugated Arsenic Drug in Drug-Directed Polymerization-Induced Self-Assembly Particles', ACS Macro Letters, 8, pp. 57 - 63, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsmacrolett.8b00853
, 2019, 'Sugar Concentration and Arrangement on the Surface of Glycopolymer Micelles Affect the Interaction with Cancer Cells', Biomacromolecules, 20, pp. 273 - 284, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.biomac.8b01406
, 2018, 'Drug-Induced Morphology Transition of Self-Assembled Glycopolymers: Insight into the Drug-Polymer Interaction', Chemistry of Materials, 30, pp. 5227 - 5236, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.8b01882
, 2015, 'A turn-on fluorescent probe for hydrogen sulfide and its application in living cells', RSC Advances, 5, pp. 86355 - 86358, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c5ra15384k
, 2014, 'A twisted-intramolecular-charge-transfer (TICT) based ratiometric fluorescent thermometer with a mega-Stokes shift and a positive temperature coefficient.', Chem Commun (Camb), 50, pp. 15811 - 15814, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c4cc08010f