By Professor Pall Thordarson

Journal articles

Kaltbeitzel J; Senthilkumar T; Sathiyamoorthy Y; Brown SL; Sajowitz A; Li HL; Marshall LK; Kokate R; Kumar P; Thordarson P; Fahrenbach AC, 2026, 'RNA Hairpin Synthesis by RNase-Catalyzed Dynamic Covalent Chemistry', Chembiochem, 27, pp. e202500915, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cbic.202500915

Cox LB; Mattick JS; Middleton IA; Rizzuto FJ; Thordarson P, 2026, 'Specificity of the stabilizing interaction between intrinsically disordered protein sequences and G-quadruplexes in RNA', Nucleic Acids Research, 54, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkaf1471

Zhang Y; Johansen MD; Ledger S; Shipley R; Zhao G; Moles E; Turville S; Thordarson P; Hansbro PM; Kavallaris M; Kelleher AD; Ahlenstiel CL, 2026, 'Comparative analysis of clinically approved lipid nanoparticles for intranasal siRNA delivery against SARS-CoV-2', Drug Delivery and Translational Research, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13346-026-02076-y

Cox LB; Thordarson P; Rizzuto FJ, 2026, 'Peptide-directed folding of the elusive RNA i-motif', Chemical Science, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d6sc01203e

Alarcon-Miranda C; Middleton IA; Rusli O; Caceres-Herrera N; Bhadbhade M; Rijs NJ; Thordarson P; Kogan MJ; Saitz C, 2025, 'N-Arylsulfonamidocalix[4]arenes with narrow pH-responsive binding near neutral pH', Chemical Science, 17, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d5sc07965a

Zhang Y; Johansen MD; Ledger S; Turville S; Thordarson P; Hansbro PM; Kelleher AD; Ahlenstiel CL, 2025, 'Respiratory Delivery of Highly Conserved Antiviral siRNAs Suppress SARS-CoV-2 Infection', International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 26, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms262311675

Attard ST; Aldilla VR; Kuppusamy R; Chen R; Black DSC; Thordarson P; Willcox MDP; Kumar N, 2025, 'Tuning the Structure–Functional Properties Within Peptide-Mimicking Antimicrobial Hydrogels', Antibiotics, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics14111118

Taief KA; Nemec S; Middleton IA; Kilian KA; Thordarson P, 2025, 'Scrambled RGD Hexameric Peptide Hydrogel Supports Efficient Self-Assembly and Cell Activity', Chemistry A European Journal, 31, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/chem.202404410

Moller AL; Middleton IA; Maynard GE; Cox LB; Wang A; Li HL; Thordarson P, 2025, 'Discrimination between Purine and Pyrimidine-Rich RNA in Liquid-Liquid Phase-Separated Condensates with Cationic Peptides and the Effect of Artificial Crowding Agents', Biomacromolecules, 26, pp. 470 - 479, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.biomac.4c01282

Thordarson P; Kim DJ, 2025, 'Supramolecular boosted superexchange', Chem, 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chempr.2024.102397

Feng J; Hosseinabadi P; de Clercq DM; Carwithen BP; Nielsen MP; Brett MW; Prasad SKK; Farahani AAD; Li HL; Sanders SN; Beves JE; Ekins-Daukes NJ; Cole JH; Thordarson P; Huang DM; Tayebjee MJY; Schmidt TW, 2024, 'Magnetic fields reveal signatures of triplet-pair multi-exciton photoluminescence in singlet fission', Nature Chemistry, 16, pp. 1861 - 1867, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41557-024-01591-0

Thordarson P; Meijer EW, 2024, 'Roeland Nolte (1944-2024)', Nature Nanotechnology, 19, pp. 421, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41565-024-01646-w

Marshall LK; Fahrenbach AC; Thordarson P, 2024, 'RNA-Binding Peptides Inspired by the RNA Recognition Motif', ACS Chemical Biology, 19, pp. 243 - 248, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acschembio.3c00694

Thordarson P, 2024, 'Supercharged supramolecular binding constants', NATURE CHEMICAL ENGINEERING, 1, pp. 203 - 204, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s44286-024-00037-1

Rathbone HW; Laos AJ; Michie KA; Iranmanesh H; Biazik J; Goodchild SC; Thordarson P; Green BR; Curmi PMG, 2023, 'Molecular dissection of the soluble photosynthetic antenna from the cryptophyte alga Hemiselmis andersenii', Communications Biology, 6, pp. 1158, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-05508-4

Höglsperger F; Larik FA; Bai C; Seyfried MD; Daniliuc C; Klaasen H; Thordarson P; Beves JE; Ravoo BJ, 2023, 'Water-Soluble Arylazoisoxazole Photoswitches', Chemistry A European Journal, 29, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/chem.202302069

Duché G; Heu C; Thordarson P, 2023, 'Development and Characterization of Nanoscale Gel-Core Liposomes Using a Short Self-Assembled Peptide Hydrogel: Implications for Drug Delivery', ACS Applied Nano Materials, 6, pp. 14745 - 14755, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsanm.3c02172

Hassan MM; Romana B; Mao G; Kumar N; Sonvico F; Thordarson P; Joyce P; Bremmell KE; Barnes TJ; Prestidge CA, 2023, 'Liposome-Micelle-Hybrid (LMH) Carriers for Controlled Co-Delivery of 5-FU and Paclitaxel as Chemotherapeutics', Pharmaceutics, 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pharmaceutics15071886

Hendrikse SIS; Todorova N; Soleimaninejad H; Charchar P; Sani MA; Al Taief K; Berengut JF; Wickham SFJ; Gras SL; Fahrenbach AC; Thordarson P; Ellis AV, 2023, 'Exploring Artificial Nucleic Acid Mimicking Peptide Nanofibers', Chemistry of Materials, 35, pp. 4355 - 4365, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.3c00445

Chrisman CH; Kudisch M; Puffer KO; Stewart TK; Lamb YML; Lim CH; Escobar R; Thordarson P; Johannes JW; Miyake GM, 2023, 'Halide Noninnocence and Direct Photoreduction of Ni(II) Enables Coupling of Aryl Chlorides in Dual Catalytic, Carbon-Heteroatom Bond-Forming Reactions', Journal of the American Chemical Society, 145, pp. 12293 - 12304, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jacs.3c02784

McInnes SJ; Tangney R; Brophy JJ; Thordarson P; Ooi MKJ, 2023, 'Does fire drive fatty acid composition in seed coats of physically dormant species?', Plant Biology, 25, pp. 268 - 275, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/plb.13498

Flood AH; Griend DAV; Thordarson P, 2023, 'Driving to K-town: the quest for quality binding constants', Supramolecular Chemistry, 34, pp. 320 - 325, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10610278.2024.2359949

Aldilla VR; Chen R; Kuppusamy R; Chakraborty S; Willcox MDP; Black DSC; Thordarson P; Martin AD; Kumar N, 2022, 'Hydrogels with intrinsic antibacterial activity prepared from naphthyl anthranilamide (NaA) capped peptide mimics', Scientific Reports, 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-26426-1

Nemec S; Ganda S; Al Taief K; Kopecky C; Kuchel R; Lebhar H; Marquis CP; Thordarson P; Kilian KA, 2022, 'A Tunable Tumor Microenvironment through Recombinant Bacterial Collagen-Hyaluronic Acid Hydrogels', ACS Applied Bio Materials, 5, pp. 4581 - 4588, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsabm.2c00186

Pramanik S; Thordarson P; Day VW; Bowman-James K, 2022, 'Oligomeric phosphate clusters in macrocyclic channels', Crystengcomm, 24, pp. 8047 - 8051, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d2ce00756h

Hendrikse SIS; Contreras-Montoya R; Ellis AV; Thordarson P; Steed JW, 2022, 'Biofunctionality with a twist: The importance of molecular organisation, handedness and configuration in synthetic biomaterial design', Chemical Society Reviews, 51, pp. 28 - 42, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d1cs00896j

Silva FRO; Lima NB; Bellini MH; Teixeira LFS; Du EY; Jamshidi N; Gooding J; Martin AD; Macmillan A; Marquis CP; Thordarson P, 2022, 'Lanthanide-based β-Tricalcium Phosphate Upconversion Nanoparticles as an Effective Theranostic Nonviral Vectors for Image-Guided Gene Therapy', Nanotheranostics, 6, pp. 306 - 321, http://dx.doi.org/10.7150/ntno.68789

Dvořák M; Prasad SKK; Dover CB; Forest CR; Kaleem A; Macqueen RW; Petty AJ; Forecast R; Beves JE; Anthony JE; Tayebjee MJY; Widmer-Cooper A; Thordarson P; Schmidt TW, 2021, 'Singlet Fission in Concentrated TIPS-Pentacene Solutions: The Role of Excimers and Aggregates', Journal of the American Chemical Society, 143, pp. 13749 - 13758, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jacs.1c05767

Aguilar A; He Q; Lammer A; Thordarson P; Sessler JL, 2021, 'Double tailed scorpiand-type calix[10]phyrin: Synthesis and proton-driven anion recognition features', Tetrahedron, 89, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tet.2021.132157

Larik FA; Fillbrook LL; Nurttila SS; Martin AD; Kuchel RP; Al Taief K; Bhadbhade M; Beves JE; Thordarson P, 2021, 'Ultra-Low Molecular Weight Photoswitchable Hydrogelators', Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 60, pp. 6764 - 6770, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie.202015703

Forest CR; Silva CAC; Thordarson P, 2021, 'Dual-peptide functionalized nanoparticles for therapeutic use', Peptide Science, 113, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pep2.24205

Evans CW; Ho D; Lee PKH; Martin AD; Chin IL; Wei Z; Li H; Atkin R; Choi YS; Norret M; Thordarson P; Iyer KS, 2021, 'A dendronised polymer architecture breaks the conventional inverse relationship between porosity and mechanical properties of hydrogels', Chemical Communications, 57, pp. 773 - 776, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d0cc07115c

Behl S; Farahani AD; Raju ; Rajan G; Ellakwa A; Farrar P; Thordarson P; Prusty BG, 2021, 'Evaluation of rheological behaviour of flowable dental composites reinforced with low aspect ratio micro-sized glass fibres', Dental Materials, 37, pp. 131 - 142, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dental.2020.10.023

Shariev A; Menounos S; Laos AJ; Laxman P; Lai D; Hua S; Zinger A; McRae CR; Casbolt LS; Combes V; Smith G; Hung TT; Dixon KM; Thordarson P; Mason RS; Das A, 2021, 'Skin protective and regenerative effects of RM191A, a novel superoxide dismutase mimetic', Redox Biology, 38, pp. 101790, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.redox.2020.101790

Aldilla VR; Chen R; Martin AD; Marjo CE; Rich AM; Black DSC; Thordarson P; Kumar N, 2020, 'Anthranilamide-based Short Peptides Self-Assembled Hydrogels as Antibacterial Agents', Scientific Reports, 10, pp. 770, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-57342-6

Urbina-Blanco CA; Jilani SZ; Speight IR; Bojdys MJ; Friščić T; Stoddart JF; Nelson TL; Mack J; Robinson RAS; Waddell EA; Lutkenhaus JL; Godfrey M; Abboud MI; Aderinto SO; Aderohunmu D; Bibič L; Borges J; Dong VM; Ferrins L; Fung FM; John T; Lim FPL; Masters SL; Mambwe D; Thordarson P; Titirici MM; Tormet-González GD; Unterlass MM; Wadle A; Yam VWW; Yang YW, 2020, 'A Diverse View of Science to Catalyse Change', Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 59, pp. 18306 - 18310, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie.202009834

Balakit AA; Makki SQ; Sert Y; Ucun F; Alshammari MB; Thordarson P; El-Hiti GA, 2020, 'Synthesis, spectrophotometric and DFT studies of new Triazole Schiff bases as selective naked-eye sensors for acetate anion', Supramolecular Chemistry, 32, pp. 519 - 526, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10610278.2020.1808217

Urbina-Blanco CA; Jilani SZ; Speight IR; Bojdys MJ; Friščić T; Stoddart JF; Nelson TL; Mack J; Robinson RAS; Waddell EA; Lutkenhaus JL; Godfrey M; Abboud MI; Aderinto SO; Aderohunmu D; Bibič L; Borges J; Dong VM; Ferrins L; Fung FM; John T; Lim FPL; Masters SL; Mambwe D; Thordarson P; Titirici MM; Tormet-González GD; Unterlass MM; Wadle A; Yam VWW; Yang YW, 2020, 'A diverse view of science to catalyse change', Chemical Science, 11, pp. 9043 - 9047, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d0sc90150d

Urbina-Blanco CA; Jilani SZ; Speight IR; Bojdys MJ; Friščić T; Stoddart JF; Nelson TL; Mack J; Robinson RAS; Waddell EA; Lutkenhaus JL; Godfrey M; Abboud MI; Aderinto SO; Aderohunmu D; Bibič L; Borges J; Dong VM; Ferrins L; Fung FM; John T; Lim FPL; Masters SL; Mambwe D; Thordarson P; Titirici MM; Tormet-González GD; Unterlass MM; Wadle A; Yam VWW; Yang YW, 2020, 'A diverse view of science to catalyse change', Nature Chemistry, 12, pp. 773 - 776, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41557-020-0529-x

Romana B; Hassan MM; Sonvico F; Garrastazu Pereira G; Mason AF; Thordarson P; Bremmell KE; Barnes TJ; Prestidge CA, 2020, 'A liposome-micelle-hybrid (LMH) oral delivery system for poorly water-soluble drugs: Enhancing solubilisation and intestinal transport', European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics, 154, pp. 338 - 347, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpb.2020.07.022

Urbina-Blanco CA; Jilani SZ; Speight IR; Bojdys MJ; Friščić T; Stoddart JF; Nelson TL; Mack J; Robinson RAS; Waddell EA; Lutkenhaus JL; Godfrey M; Abboud MI; Aderinto SO; Aderohunmu D; Bibič L; Borges J; Dong VM; Ferrins L; Fung FM; John T; Lim FPL; Masters SL; Mambwe D; Thordarson P; Titirici MM; Tormet-González GD; Unterlass MM; Wadle A; Yam VWW; Yang YW, 2020, 'A Diverse View of Science to Catalyse Change', Journal of the American Chemical Society, 142, pp. 14393 - 14396, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jacs.0c07877

Sharma A; Wojciechowski JP; Liu Y; Pelras T; Wallace CM; Müllner M; Widmer-Cooper A; Thordarson P; Lakhwani G, 2020, 'The Role of Fiber Agglomeration in Formation of Perylene-Based Fiber Networks', Cell Reports Physical Science, 1, pp. 100148, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.xcrp.2020.100148

Wojciechowski JP; Martin AD; Du EY; Garvey CJ; Nordon RE; Thordarson P, 2020, 'Erratum: Non-reversible heat-induced gelation of a biocompatible Fmoc-hexapeptide in water (Nanoscale (2020) 12 (8262-8267) DOI: 10.1039/D0NR00289E)', Nanoscale, 12, pp. 15905, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d0nr90160a

Du EY; Ziaee F; Wang L; Nordon RE; Thordarson P, 2020, 'The correlations between structure, rheology, and cell growth in peptide-based multicomponent hydrogels', Polymer Journal, 52, pp. 947 - 957, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41428-020-0351-8

Duché G; Thordarson P; Kearnes M, 2020, 'The importance of reflecting on treatment and post-treatment care when assessing the social aspects of cosmetic nanomedicine and transdermal delivery system', Nanomedicine Nanotechnology Biology and Medicine, 28, pp. 102214, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nano.2020.102214

Urbina-Blanco CA; Jilani SZ; Speight IR; Bojdys MJ; Friščić T; Fraser Stoddart J; Nelson TL; Mack J; Robinson RAS; Waddell EA; Lutkenhaus JL; Godfrey M; Abboud MI; Aderinto SO; Aderohunmu D; Bibič L; Borges J; Dong VM; Ferrins L; Fung FM; John T; Lim FPL; Masters SL; Mambwe D; Thordarson P; Titirici MM; Tormet-González GD; Unterlass MM; Wadle A; Yam VWW; Yang YW, 2020, 'A diverse view of science to catalyse change', Croatica Chemica Acta, 93, http://dx.doi.org/10.5562/DIVERSITY2020

Tjandra KC; Forest CR; Wong CK; Alcantara S; Kelly HG; Ju Y; Stenzel MH; McCarroll JA; Kavallaris M; Caruso F; Kent SJ; Thordarson P, 2020, 'Modulating the Selectivity and Stealth Properties of Ellipsoidal Polymersomes through a Multivalent Peptide Ligand Display', Advanced Healthcare Materials, 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adhm.202000261

Ariawan AD; Sun B; Wojciechowski JP; Lin I; Du EY; Goodchild SC; Cranfield CG; Ittner LM; Thordarson P; Martin AD, 2020, 'Effect of polar amino acid incorporation on Fmoc-diphenylalanine-based tetrapeptides', Soft Matter, 16, pp. 4800 - 4805, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d0sm00320d

Ghosh D; Farahani AD; Martin AD; Thordarson P; Damodaran KK, 2020, 'Unraveling the Self-Assembly Modes in Multicomponent Supramolecular Gels Using Single-Crystal X-ray Diffraction', Chemistry of Materials, 32, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.0c00475

Wojciechowski JP; Martin AD; Du EY; Garvey CJ; Nordon RE; Thordarson P, 2020, 'Non-reversible heat-induced gelation of a biocompatible Fmoc-hexapeptide in water', Nanoscale, 12, pp. 8262 - 8267, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d0nr00289e

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