Research

There are three main focus areas of The Scientist's group:

a) The understanding of how small non-coding RNA and circular RNA contribute to cell maintenance and disease development with a primary aim of defining new targets for disease intervention.

b) The creation of novel bioimaging and delivery systems for gene medicine including siRNA, miRNA mimics, antimiRs (antisense targeting microRNA) with a specific focus on inflammation, cancer, influenza, and regeneration of damaged tissue (tissue engineering).

c) Design and construction of functionalized self assembled DNA and RNA nanostructures capable of complex biosensing, coupled with controlled action e.g. drug release, enzyme activation, and receptor signaling.

Recent publications

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Yu, M., Chen, C., Liu, Q., Mattioli, C., Sang, H., Shi, G., Huang, W., Shen, K., Li, Z., Ding, P., Guan, P., Wang, S., Sun, Y., Hu, J., Gourdon, A., Kantorovich, L., Besenbacher, F., Chen, M., Song, F. & Rosei, F. (2020). Long-range ordered and atomic-scale control of graphene hybridization by photocycloaddition. Nature Chemistry, 12(11), 1035-1041. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-020-0540-2

Chen, Y., Chen, C., Ding, P., Shi, G., Sun, Y., Kantorovich, L. N., Besenbacher, F. & Yu, M. (2020). Molecular recognition and homochirality preservation of guanine tetrads in the presence of melamine. Nano Research, 13(9), 2427-2430. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-020-2869-7

Wang, Y., Li, Z., Hu, Y., Liu, J., Guo, M., Wei, H., Zheng, S., Jiang, T., Sun, X., Ma, Z., Sun, Y., Besenbacher, F., Chen, C. & Yu, M. (2020). Photothermal conversion-coordinated Fenton-like and photocatalytic reactions of Cu_2-xSe-Au Janus nanoparticles for tri-combination antitumor therapy. Biomaterials, 255, Article 120167. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biomaterials.2020.120167

Yu, D., Li, Z., Zhao, G., Zhang, H., Aslan, H., Li, J., Sun, F., Zhu, L., Du, B., Yang, B., Cao, W., Sun, Y., Besenbacher, F. & Yu, M. (2020). Porous Ultrathin NiSe Nanosheet Networks on Nickel Foam for High-Performance Hybrid Supercapacitors. ChemSusChem, 13(1), 260-266. https://doi.org/10.1002/cssc.201901766

Wang, Z., Wu, H. H., Li, Q., Besenbacher, F., Li, Y., Zeng, X. C. & Dong, M. (2020). Reversing Interfacial Catalysis of Ambipolar WSe₂ Single Crystal. Advanced Science, 7(3), Article 1901382. https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.201901382

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