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Superselectivity as a Receptor-Fluctuation Response
Xiuyang Xia
Superselective multivalent binding enables sharp receptor-density discrimination in targeting and sensing, but what its logarithmic response measures microscopically remains unclea…
Entropy-driven physical amplification in multivalent biosensing
Xiuyang Xia, Yuhan Peng, Ran Ni
Sensitive detection of low-abundance molecular targets is widely assumed to require enzymatic amplification, such as PCR, to achieve low detection limits. In amplification-free pla…
Designed self-assembly of programmable colloidal atom-electron equivalents
Xiuyang Xia, Yuhan Peng, Ka Ki Li +1
To unlock the potential for assembling complex colloidal "molecules", we investigate a minimal binary system of programmable colloidal atom-electron equivalents (PAE-EE), where ele…
A bond swap algorithm for simulating dynamically crosslinked polymers
Peilin Rao, Xiuyang Xia, Ran Ni
Materials incorporating covalent adaptive networks (CAN), e.g., vitrimers, have received significant scientific attention due to their distinctive attributes of self-healing and st…
Designing superselectivity in linker-mediated multivalent nanoparticle adsorption
Xiuyang Xia, Ran Ni
Using a statistical mechanical model and numerical simulations, we provide the design principle for the bridging strength () and linker density () dependent superselectivity…
The role of receptor uniformity in multivalent binding
Xiuyang Xia, Ge Zhang, Massimo Pica Ciamarra +2
Multivalency is prevalent in various biological systems and applications due to the superselectivity that arises from the cooperativity of multivalent binding. Traditionally, it wa…
Entropy driven thermo-gelling vitrimer
Xiuyang Xia, Peilin Rao, Juan Yang +2
Thermo-gelling polymers have been envisioned as promising smart biomaterials but limited to their weak mechanical and thermodynamic stabilities. Here we propose a new thermo-gellin…
Entropy-Controlled Cross-Linking in Linker-Mediated Vitrimers
Qun-Li Lei, Xiuyang Xia, Juan Yang +2
Recently developed linker-mediated vitrimers based on metathesis of dioxaborolanes with various commercially available polymers have shown both good processability and outstanding…
Linker-mediated self-assembly of mobile DNA-coated colloids
Xiuyang Xia, Hao Hu, Massimo Pica Ciamarra +1
Developing construction methods of materials tailored for given applications with absolute control over building block placement poses an immense challenge. DNA-coated colloids off…