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ReviewACS nano2025

Merging Natural Biopolymers with Supramolecular Chemistry: Emulating the Native Extracellular Matrix's Complexity.

Vera Sousa, Bruno Ladeira, Elisabeth Garanger, Sébastien Lecommandoux, E W Meijer, Patricia Y W Dankers, João F Mano, João Borges

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Review in ACS nano, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Interfacial engineering for enantioselective electrochemical sensing of tryptophan: materials, recognition strategies, and performance benchmarking.Analytical sciences : the international journal of the Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry · 2026
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  8. The Polymers of Life: Exploring Cellular Function Through Polymer Concepts.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Vera SousaCICECO - Aveiro Institute of Materials, Department of Chemistry, University of Aveiro, Campus Universitário de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0002-0485-3233
Bruno LadeiraCICECO - Aveiro Institute of Materials, Department of Chemistry, University of Aveiro, Campus Universitário de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0002-2684-9278
Elisabeth GarangerUniversity of Bordeaux, CNRS, Bordeaux INP, LCPO, UMR 5629, F-33600 Pessac, France.ORCID 0000-0001-9130-8286
Sébastien LecommandouxUniversity of Bordeaux, CNRS, Bordeaux INP, LCPO, UMR 5629, F-33600 Pessac, France.ORCID 0000-0003-0465-8603
E W MeijerInstitute for Complex Molecular Systems, Eindhoven University of Technology, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0003-4126-7492
Patricia Y W DankersInstitute for Complex Molecular Systems, Eindhoven University of Technology, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-8997-181X
João F ManoCICECO - Aveiro Institute of Materials, Department of Chemistry, University of Aveiro, Campus Universitário de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0002-2342-3765
João BorgesCICECO - Aveiro Institute of Materials, Department of Chemistry, University of Aveiro, Campus Universitário de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0003-0126-8482

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The extracellular matrix (ECM) is one of the most striking natural self-assembled landscapes, essential for tissue integrity and cellular functions, where it orchestrates cell fate through a dynamic interplay of noncovalent interactions. Despite decades of research, there is still no scaffold that can replicate its nanostructural elegance and functional dynamic behavior. In this Perspective, we summarize cutting-edge approaches to reconstruct the ECM, putting an emphasis on either dynamic supramolecular designs or naturally sourced biopolymers. We then propose merging the natural with the synthetic world to enable hybrid cell-instructive materials that combine the dynamic mechanical profile, biomolecular composition and structural features of the ECM at all scales, from the nano- to the mesoscale, aiming to create a fully functional artificial ECM.

Indexed as

Extracellular MatrixAnimalsBiopolymersHumansMacromolecular SubstancesBiopolymersMacromolecular Substances

Identifiers

PMID40814993
PMCPMC12818767

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