Functional nucleic acid-based hydrogels for bioanalytical and biomedical applications
Hunan University · Fuzhou University · +6 more institutions
Abstract
Hydrogels are crosslinked hydrophilic polymers that can absorb a large amount of water. By their hydrophilic, biocompatible and highly tunable nature, hydrogels can be tailored for applications in bioanalysis and biomedicine. Of particular interest are DNA-based hydrogels owing to the unique features of nucleic acids. Since the discovery of the DNA double helical structure, interest in DNA has expanded beyond its genetic role to applications in nanotechnology and materials science. In particular, DNA-based hydrogels present such remarkable features as stability, flexibility, precise programmability, stimuli-responsive DNA conformations, facile synthesis and modification. Moreover, functional nucleic acids…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 29.59
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 241
Authors
6- JLJuan LiCorresponding
Hunan University, Fuzhou University
- LMLiuting Mo
Hunan University, Theranostics (New Zealand), Chemo (France), Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine
- CLChunhua Lü
Fuzhou University
- TFTing Fu
Hunan University, University of Florida Health, Interface (United States), Theranostics (New Zealand), Chemo (France), Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, UF Health Cancer Center
- HYHuanghao YangCorresponding
Fuzhou University
Topics & keywords
- Bioanalysis
- Nucleic acid
- Self-healing hydrogels
- Nanotechnology
- Chemistry
- Nucleic acid quantitation
- Materials science
- Biochemistry