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Biofunctional Polymers Lab
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A lab that creates materials for medicine and the environment from the mechanisms by which biopolymers assemble themselves.
AboutAbout the lab
Opening up the potential of life through polymers.
The Biofunctional Polymers Lab studies how to understand and design self-assembly, the process by which biopolymers gather on their own to form structures.
From there, its research extends to biomembrane engineering, nanomedicine, and environmentally responsive materials.
Working across polymer chemistry and life science, the lab aims to understand life phenomena and to apply that understanding to medicine and the environment.
Key terms
- Self-assembly
- The process by which molecules gather on their own to form an ordered structure without being assembled from outside
- Extracellular vesicles
- Tiny membrane-enclosed sacs that cells release to the outside. They are involved in the exchange of information between cells
- Nanomedicine
- Medical technology that uses materials on the nanometer scale to deliver drugs or treat the body
NewsLab news
The lab announced results that used proteins to explain why artificial nanoparticles and extracellular vesicles enter cells differently
The lab announced results on muscle regeneration using spheroids fused with polysaccharide fibers
Results on self-assembling nanogels made from polysaccharides carrying short oligonucleotides were published in Polymer Journal
Results on improving the stability of silver nanoparticles by combining them with biomembranes were published in RSC Applied Interfaces
Results on a self-assembling nanovaccine were published in ACS Biomater. Sci. Eng.
ResearchResearch themes
Building on the understanding and design of biopolymer self-assembly, the lab extends its research to biomembrane engineering, nanomedicine, and environmentally responsive materials. Working across polymer chemistry and life science, it aims to understand life phenomena and to apply that understanding to medicine and the environment.
*Illustrative imageNanomaterials based on biomembranes
Focusing on the excellent functions of biomembrane nanoparticles such as extracellular vesicles, the lab creates membrane-derived nanomaterials whose structure and behavior are artificially designed.
*Illustrative imageAssemblies that realize nanomedicine
Through the design of self-assembling polymers, the lab develops functional nano-assemblies that can be used for drug delivery and regenerative medicine.
*Illustrative imageBio-nano hybrids that respond to their environment
By combining the physical properties unique to inorganic materials with the flexible functionality of biomolecules and polymers, the lab designs hybrid nanomaterials that respond to biological environments and external stimuli.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Biofunctional Polymers Lab are faculty, doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students, and administrative assistants.
- ProfessorYoshihiro Sasaki
- Assistant ProfessorRyosuke Mizuta
- Assistant ProfessorMika Suzuki
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Supported Lipid Bilayer and Nanoparticles AFM” Yurko / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Nanomaterials based on biomembranes: “Exosome formation.” Maximus155 / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Assemblies that realize nanomedicine: “Targeted Nanogel Delivery for Cancer Treatment” Mes14ncsu / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Bio-nano hybrids that respond to their environment: “НАНОЧАСТИЦЫ ЗОЛОТА В ОБОЛОЧКЕ ИЗ ДИОКСИДА КРЕМНИЯ” Дерепко Виолетта Николаевна / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
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