An "In Vivo Self-assembly" Strategy for Constructing Superstructures for Biomedical Applications

作者:Zhao Man Zhu; Cheng Dong Bing; Shang Zhao Ru; Wang Lei; Qiao Zeng Ying; Zhang Jing Ping*; Wang Hao*
来源:Chinese Journal of Polymer Science, 2018, 36(10): 1103-1113.
DOI:10.1007/s10118-018-2170-3

摘要

The interfacing study of biopolymer and supramolecular chemistry enables a better understanding of fundamental biochemical processes and the creating of new high-performance biomaterials. In this review, we introduced an "in vivo self-assembly" strategy which means in situ construction of functional self-assembled superstructures in specific physiological or pathological conditions in cell, tissue or animal levels that exhibit diverse biomedical effects. By using this strategy, unexpected phenomena and insights, e.g, assembly/aggregation induced retention (AIR) effect have been demonstrated where the self-assembled nanostructures showed extraordinary enhanced accumulation and retention of therapeutics in targeted sites.