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Ariga K. Materials Nanoarchitectonics at Dynamic Interfaces: Structure Formation and Functional Manipulation. MATERIALS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2024; 17:271. [PMID: 38204123 PMCID: PMC10780059 DOI: 10.3390/ma17010271] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2023] [Revised: 12/25/2023] [Accepted: 12/29/2023] [Indexed: 01/12/2024]
Abstract
The next step in nanotechnology is to establish a methodology to assemble new functional materials based on the knowledge of nanotechnology. This task is undertaken by nanoarchitectonics. In nanoarchitectonics, we architect functional material systems from nanounits such as atoms, molecules, and nanomaterials. In terms of the hierarchy of the structure and the harmonization of the function, the material created by nanoarchitectonics has similar characteristics to the organization of the functional structure in biosystems. Looking at actual biofunctional systems, dynamic properties and interfacial environments are key. In other words, nanoarchitectonics at dynamic interfaces is important for the production of bio-like highly functional materials systems. In this review paper, nanoarchitectonics at dynamic interfaces will be discussed, looking at recent typical examples. In particular, the basic topics of "molecular manipulation, arrangement, and assembly" and "material production" will be discussed in the first two sections. Then, in the following section, "fullerene assembly: from zero-dimensional unit to advanced materials", we will discuss how various functional structures can be created from the very basic nanounit, the fullerene. The above examples demonstrate the versatile possibilities of architectonics at dynamic interfaces. In the last section, these tendencies will be summarized, and future directions will be discussed.
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Affiliation(s)
- Katsuhiko Ariga
- Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba 305-0044, Ibaraki, Japan;
- Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa 277-8561, Chiba, Japan
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Ariga K. Liquid-Liquid Interfacial Nanoarchitectonics. SMALL (WEINHEIM AN DER BERGSTRASSE, GERMANY) 2023:e2305636. [PMID: 37641176 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202305636] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2023] [Revised: 07/28/2023] [Indexed: 08/31/2023]
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Science in the small world has become a crucial key that has the potential to revolutionize materials technology. This trend is embodied in the postnanotechnology concept of nanoarchitectonics. The goal of nanoarchitectonics is to create bio-like functional structures, in which self-organized and hierarchical structures are working efficiently. Liquid-liquid interface like environments such as cell membrane surface are indispensable for the expression of biological functions through the accumulation and organization of functional materials. From this viewpoint, it is necessary to reconsider the liquid-liquid interface as a medium where nanoarchitectonics can play an active role. In this review, liquid-liquid interfacial nanoarchitectonics is classified by component materials such as organic, inorganic, carbon, and bio, and recent research examples are discussed. Examples discussed in this paper include molecular aggregates, supramolecular polymers, conductive polymers film, crystal-like capsules, block copolymer assemblies, covalent organic framework (COF) films, complex crystals, inorganic nanosheets, colloidosomes, fullerene assemblies, all-carbon π-conjugated graphite nanosheets, carbon nanoskins and fullerphene thin films at liquid-liquid interfaces. Furthermore, at the liquid-liquid interface using perfluorocarbons and aqueous phases, cell differentiation controls are discussed with the self-assembled structure of biomaterials. The significance of liquid-liquid interfacial nanoarchitectonics in the future development of materials will then be discussed.
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Affiliation(s)
- Katsuhiko Ariga
- Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, 305-0044, Japan
- Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwa-no-ha Kashiwa, Tokyo, 277-8561, Japan
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Merland T, Drou C, Legoupy S, Benyahia L, Schmutz M, Nicolai T, Chassenieux C. Self-Assembly in water of C 60 fullerene into isotropic nanoparticles or nanoplatelets mediated by a cationic amphiphilic polymer. J Colloid Interface Sci 2022; 624:537-545. [PMID: 35679641 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2022.05.113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2021] [Revised: 05/17/2022] [Accepted: 05/18/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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HYPOTHESIS To disperse high concentration of C60 fullerene in water, we propose to use an emulsification-evaporation process in the presence of an amphiphilic polymer whose chemical structure has been chosen for inducing specific interaction with fullerene The viscosity enhancement provided by self-assembly of the amphiphilic polymers in water should result in high stability of the suspensions. The organic solvent has also to been chosen so as to maximize the initial fullerene concentration. EXPERIMENTS The concentrations of polymer and fullerene, the solvent type and the volume fraction of the organic phase have been varied. Their influence on the concentration of the fullerene dispersions and on the size and shape of the resulting nanoparticles have been investigated by UV-Visible spectroscopy, light scattering and cryo-transmission electron microscopy experiments. FINDINGS The resulting nanoparticles consist of aggregates of C60 fullerene stabilized by the cationic polymer with morphologies/sizes tunable through fullerene and polymer concentration. At high fullerene concentration, nanoplatelets are obtained that consist in thin 2D nanocrystals. Their suspensions are very stable with time due to the viscosity of the dispersing aqueous medium. The concentration of fullerene nanoparticles dispersed in water is as high as 8 g/L which corresponds to an upper limit that has never been reached so far.
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- Théo Merland
- Institut des Molécules et Matériaux du Mans, UMR CNRS 6283, Le Mans Université, Avenue Olivier Messiaen, 72085 Le Mans Cedex 9, France.
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- Univ Angers, CNRS, MOLTECH-ANJOU, F-49000 Angers, France.
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- Institut des Molécules et Matériaux du Mans, UMR CNRS 6283, Le Mans Université, Avenue Olivier Messiaen, 72085 Le Mans Cedex 9, France.
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- Institut Charles Sadron, UPR CNRS 22, 23 Rue du Loess, 67034 Strasbourg Cedex, France.
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- Institut des Molécules et Matériaux du Mans, UMR CNRS 6283, Le Mans Université, Avenue Olivier Messiaen, 72085 Le Mans Cedex 9, France.
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- Institut des Molécules et Matériaux du Mans, UMR CNRS 6283, Le Mans Université, Avenue Olivier Messiaen, 72085 Le Mans Cedex 9, France.
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Shen X, Song J, Kawakami K, Ariga K. Molecule-to-Material-to-Bio Nanoarchitectonics with Biomedical Fullerene Nanoparticles. MATERIALS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2022; 15:5404. [PMID: 35955337 PMCID: PMC9369991 DOI: 10.3390/ma15155404] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2022] [Revised: 07/28/2022] [Accepted: 08/02/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Nanoarchitectonics integrates nanotechnology with various other fields, with the goal of creating functional material systems from nanoscale units such as atoms, molecules, and nanomaterials. The concept bears strong similarities to the processes and functions seen in biological systems. Therefore, it is natural for materials designed through nanoarchitectonics to truly shine in bio-related applications. In this review, we present an overview of recent work exemplifying how nanoarchitectonics relates to biology and how it is being applied in biomedical research. First, we present nanoscale interactions being studied in basic biology and how they parallel nanoarchitectonics concepts. Then, we overview the state-of-the-art in biomedical applications pursuant to the nanoarchitectonics framework. On this basis, we take a deep dive into a particular building-block material frequently seen in nanoarchitectonics approaches: fullerene. We take a closer look at recent research on fullerene nanoparticles, paying special attention to biomedical applications in biosensing, gene delivery, and radical scavenging. With these subjects, we aim to illustrate the power of nanomaterials and biomimetic nanoarchitectonics when applied to bio-related applications, and we offer some considerations for future perspectives.
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- Xuechen Shen
- Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa 277-8561, Chiba, Japan
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- Research Center for Functional Materials, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba 305-0044, Ibaraki, Japan
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- Research Center for Functional Materials, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba 305-0044, Ibaraki, Japan
- Graduate School of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba 305-8577, Ibaraki, Japan
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- Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa 277-8561, Chiba, Japan
- WPI Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba 305-0044, Ibaraki, Japan
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Sun H, Li D, Yue X, Hong R, Yang W, Liu C, Xu H, Lu J, Dong L, Wang G, Li D. A Review of Transition Metal Dichalcogenides-Based Biosensors. Front Bioeng Biotechnol 2022; 10:941135. [PMID: 35769098 PMCID: PMC9234135 DOI: 10.3389/fbioe.2022.941135] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2022] [Accepted: 05/23/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) are widely used in biosensing applications due to their excellent physical and chemical properties. Due to the properties of biomaterial targets, the biggest challenge that biosensors face now is how to improve the sensitivity and stability. A lot of materials had been used to enhance the target signal. Among them, TMDCs show excellent performance in enhancing biosensing signals because of their metallic and semi-conducting electrical capabilities, tunable band gap, large specific surface area and so on. Here, we review different functionalization methods and research progress of TMDCs-based biosensors. The modification methods of TMDCs for biosensor fabrication mainly include two strategies: non-covalent and covalent interaction. The article summarizes the advantages and disadvantages of different modification strategies and their effects on biosensing performance. The authors present the challenges and issues that TMDCs need to be addressed in biosensor applications. Finally, the review expresses the positive application prospects of TMDCs-based biosensors in the future.
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- Hongyu Sun
- Ministry of Education Engineering Research Center of Smart Microsensors and Microsystems, School of Electronic Information, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou, China
- School of Automation, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou, China
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- Ministry of Education Engineering Research Center of Smart Microsensors and Microsystems, School of Electronic Information, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou, China
- *Correspondence: Dujuan Li, ; Dongyang Li,
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- The Children’s Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Ministry of Education Engineering Research Center of Smart Microsensors and Microsystems, School of Electronic Information, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou, China
- School of Automation, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou, China
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- Ministry of Education Engineering Research Center of Smart Microsensors and Microsystems, School of Electronic Information, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou, China
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- Ministry of Education Engineering Research Center of Smart Microsensors and Microsystems, School of Electronic Information, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou, China
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- College of Life Sciences and Oceanography, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China
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- School of Science, Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Ministry of Education Engineering Research Center of Smart Microsensors and Microsystems, School of Electronic Information, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou, China
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- Ministry of Education Engineering Research Center of Smart Microsensors and Microsystems, School of Electronic Information, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou, China
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- Laboratory of Agricultural Information Intelligent Sensing, College of Biosystems Engineering and Food Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
- *Correspondence: Dujuan Li, ; Dongyang Li,
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Qin X, Liu J, Mu Y, Li SD. Compression-induced crimping of boron nanotubes from borophenes: a DFT study. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2022; 24:14566-14572. [PMID: 35666227 DOI: 10.1039/d2cp01824a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Several borophenes have been prepared successfully, but the synthesis of boron nanotubes is still very difficult. Our results suggest that the high flexibility of borophene in combination with van der Waals interactions makes it possible to coil boron nanotubes from rippled borophenes, which is confirmed by ab initio molecular dynamics simulations. The plane structures transform into rippled structures almost without any barrier under very small compression and weak perturbations like molecular adsorption. The compression energies of the rippled structures increase linearly and slowly with the increase of the compression. This suggests how the geometry of the borophene evolves with compression. Based on the evaluation of the free energy of hydrogen adsorption, a stronger compression suggests the improved hydrogen evolution performance of the borophene and even makes it better than Pt catalysts. Meanwhile, good hydrogen evolution performance is also suggested for boron nanotubes. Our results suggest a novel preparation method for boron nanotubes from borophenes and a possible way to improve their hydrogen evolution performance.
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- Xueqin Qin
- Key Laboratory of Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage of Shanxi Province, Institute of Molecular Science, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, Shanxi 030006, People's Republic of China.
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- Key Laboratory of Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage of Shanxi Province, Institute of Molecular Science, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, Shanxi 030006, People's Republic of China.
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- Key Laboratory of Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage of Shanxi Province, Institute of Molecular Science, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, Shanxi 030006, People's Republic of China.
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- Key Laboratory of Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage of Shanxi Province, Institute of Molecular Science, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, Shanxi 030006, People's Republic of China.
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Fullerene Rosette: Two-Dimensional Interactive Nanoarchitectonics and Selective Vapor Sensing. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:ijms23105454. [PMID: 35628264 PMCID: PMC9141234 DOI: 10.3390/ijms23105454] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2022] [Revised: 05/04/2022] [Accepted: 05/11/2022] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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The simplicity of fullerenes as assembled components provides attractive opportunities for basic understanding in self-assembly research. We applied in situ reactive methods to the self-assembly process of C60 molecules with melamine/ethylenediamine components in solution, resulting in a novel type of fullerene assemblies, micron-sized two-dimensional, amorphous shape-regular objects, fullerene rosettes. ATR−FTIR spectra, XPS, and TGA results suggest that the melamine/ethylenediamine components strongly interact and/or are covalently linked with fullerenes in the fullerene rosettes. The broad peak for layer spacing in the XRD patterns of the fullerene rosettes corresponds roughly to the interdigitated fullerene bilayer or monolayer of modified fullerene molecules. The fullerene rosettes are made from the accumulation of bilayer/monolayer assemblies of hybridized fullerenes in low crystallinity. Prototype sensor systems were fabricated upon immobilization of the fullerene rosettes onto surfaces of a quartz crystal microbalance (QCM), and selective sensing of formic acid was demonstrated as preliminary results for social-demanded toxic material sensing. The QCM sensor with fullerene rosette is categorized as one of the large-response sensors among reported examples. In selectivity to formic acids against basic guests (formic acid/pyridine >30) or aromatic guests (formic acid/toluene >110), the fullerene rosette-based QCM sensor also showed superior performance.
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Bhadra BN, Shrestha LK, Ariga K. Porous carbon nanoarchitectonics for the environment: detection and adsorption. CrystEngComm 2022. [DOI: 10.1039/d2ce00872f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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As a post-nanotechnology concept, nanoarchitectonics has emerged from the 20th century to the 21st century. This review summarizes the recent progress in the field of metal-free porous carbon nanoarchitectonics.
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- Biswa Nath Bhadra
- WPI Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan
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- WPI Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan
- Department of Materials Science, Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1, Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8573, Japan
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- WPI Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan
- Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8561, Japan
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