Nucleic Acid-Based Nanomaterials: Stabilities and Applications

Learn about the cutting-edge nanotechnologies which play an important role in clinical and medical therapies

Nucleic acids, the biomolecules which carry most of nature’s critical genetic information, are an omnipresent component of life on earth. Nanomaterials incorporating or otherwise built around nucleic acids and their key properties have a number of clinical and medical applications, including drug delivery and more. Biomaterials scientists and other professionals in these fields can benefit enormously from increased knowledge of these invaluable materials.

Nucleic Acid-Based Nanomaterials supplies a thorough, rigorous overview of these materials and their possible applications. Beginning with an introduction to the history of nanomaterials and their nucleic-acid-based subcategories, the book offers a detailed and state-of-the-art survey of the current research into these molecules, efforts to increase their biostability, and their incorporation into a range of industries. The result is an essential contribution to materials science in a variety of life-saving contexts.

Nucleic Acid-Based Nanomaterials readers will also find:

• Application-oriented structure which grounds general concepts in their specific instantiations
• Detailed discussion of applications including drug delivery, tissue engineering, antimicrobial therapy, and more
• A rigorous yet accessible approach suitable for both academia and industry

Nucleic Acid-Based Nanomaterials is ideal for chemists of all types, particularly biochemists and medical chemists, and those in industry.

Yunfeng Lin obtains his B.D. and Ph.D. from Sichuan University in 2001 and 2006. He joined the West China College of Stomatology, Sichuan University at 2006 and became the full professor of Sichuan University since 2008. He took his postdoctoral research at Harvard University between 2009 and 2010. He is Vice-director of West China Medical Center, Sichuan University and Vice-director of State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases. His main research focus on Stem Cell Biology, DNA Nanomaterial and Tissue Regeneration. He has published over 178 SCI papers as corresponding author or first author, including Nature Protocols, Materials Today, Advanced Materials et al. His papers have been cited for more than 7700 times. He has edit 8 English books. He received National High-level personnel of special support program of China, Young Scientific and Technological Innovation Leader of China, Chinese Youth Science and Technology Award, Ministry of Education Science and Technology Progress Award, New Century Excellent Talents of Chinese Ministry of Education and National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of China.

Shaojingya Gao earned his M.Sc. (2019) and Ph.D. (2022) degrees from West China Collage of Stomatology in Sichuan University. Since 2019, she joined Prof. Yunfeng Lin group as a postdoctoral researcher in State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases. She has published more than 10 papers in scientific journals. Currently, her research interests focus on the immunotherapy and drug delivery of framework nucleic acids.