• Deep tissue penetration of bottle-brush polymers via cell capture evasion and fast diffusion 

    Rabanel, Jean-Michel; Mirbagheri, Marziye; Olszewski, Mateusz; Xie, Guojun; Le Goas, Marine; Latreille, Pierre-Luc; Counil, Hermine; Hervé, Vincent; Oliveira Silva, Rummenigge; Zaouter, Charlotte; Adibnia, Vahid; Acevedo, Mariana; Servant, Marc; Martinez, Vincent A.; Patten, Shunmoogum A.; Matyjaszewski, Krzysztof; Ramassamy, Charles; Banquy, Xavier (American Chemical Society, 2022-12-14)
    Drug nanocarriers (NCs) capable of crossing the vascular endothelium and deeply penetrating into dense tissues of the CNS could potentially transform the management of neurological diseases. In the present study, we investigated the interaction of ...
  • Wear protection without surface modification using a synergistic mixture of molecular brushes and linear polymers 

    Faivre, Jimmy; Shrestha, Buddha R.; Burdynska, Joanna; Xie, Guojun; Moldovan, Florina; Delair, Thierry; Benayoun, Stéphane; David, Laurent; Matyjaszewski, Krzysztof; Banquy, Xavier (American Chemical Society, 2017-01-10)
    We describe the design of lubricating and wear protecting fluids based on mixtures of bottlebrushes (BB) and linear polymers solutions. To illustrate this concept we used hyaluronic acid (HA) - a naturally occurring linear polyelectrolyte, and a water ...