Abstract
Although many nanodevices have been described in recent years, nanoparticles capable of communicating with each other have been barely reported. Traditional communication technologies cannot be applied on the nanoscale, but a potential approach to achieve this goal is to mimic how nature communicates by exchanging information using molecules. Based on these concepts, some examples using DNA, enzymes and small molecules for information processing, nanoparticles capable of modulating chemical communication between cells and nanoparticles that can communicate with each another have been reported. Communication between nanodevices may find applications in different areas and a number of future new results are envisioned in this research field.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 8-11 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Nano Today |
| Volume | 18 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Feb 2018 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Funding
A. Llopis-Lorente is thankful to the “La Caixa” Banking Foundation for his PhD grant. The authors are grateful to the Spanish Government (MINECO Projects MAT2015-64139-C4-1, CTQ2014-58989-P, CTQ2015-71936-REDT and AGL2015-70235-C2-2-R) and the Generalitat Valenciana (Project PROMETEOII/2014/047). The authors also thank the Comunidad de Madrid (S2013/MIT-3029, Programme NANOAVANSENS) for support. Antoni Llopis-Lorente studied Chemistry at the University of Valencia and graduated with honors in 2013. Currently, he is a PhD candidate at the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV) under the supervision of Prof. Ramón Martínez-Mañez. He has carried out research stays at the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain) and the Radboud University (the Netherlands) in the group of Prof. Reynaldo Villalonga and the group of Prof. Daniela Wilson, respectively. His main research interests are to develop enzyme-based nanodevices and nanoparticles for sensing, drug delivery and chemical communication. Paula Díez was born in 1986 in León, Spain, and received her B.S. degree in Chemistry from the Complutense University of Madrid in 2011. She obtained her PhD degree at the same university in 2016 where she is currently working under the supervision of Prof. Reynaldo Villalonga. She has been working as a visitor researcher at the University of California (San Diego) in Prof. Joseph Wang’s group, and also at the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV) with Prof. Ramón Martínez-Mañez’s group. Her research focuses on enzyme biosensors and smart nanomaterials for drug delivery and chemical communication. Alfredo Sánchez was born in 1983 in Madrid, Spain. He received his B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from the Rey Juan Carlos University in 2006 and he obtained his PhD degree at the same university in 2011. Since 2012 he has worked at the Complutense University of Madrid under the supervision of Prof. Reynaldo Villalonga and Prof. José M. Pingarrón in the design of enzyme biosensors and enzymatic-based hybrid nanomaterials. María Dolores Marcos was born in Valencia, Spain, and received her PhD in chemistry from the University of Valencia in 1992 and was a postdoctoral fellow at Cambridge University, UK. She has been a lecturer in the Department of Chemistry at the Polytechnic University of Valencia since 2000. At present she undertakes her research at the IDM Research Institute of the Polytechnic University of Valencia. She is the coauthor of more than 120 research publications and ten patents. Her current research interest involves designing hybrid materials to develop new methods for sensing and for controlled delivery applications. Félix Sancenón was born in 1968 in Manises, Valencia (Spain), and graduated in Chemistry in 1991. He received his PhD degree in 2003. Afterward, he worked with Professor L. Fabbrizzi at the Universitá di Pavia on the synthesis of chromogenic receptors for ion pairs. Then he joined the Department of Chemistry at the Polytechnic University of Valencia with a Ramón y Cajal contract. He became a lecturer in 2006. He is the coauthor of more than 220 research publications. His current research interest comprises the use of hybrid materials to develop sensors and to construct molecular gates. Paloma Martínez Ruiz obtained her PhD degree in Organic Chemistry in 1997 from the Complutense University of Madrid. She received predoctoral (1996) and postdoctoral (1998) training at the Organic Chemistry Institute of Eberhard-Karls Univertät Tübingen (Germany) under the supervision of Prof. Dr. h.c. Michael Hanack. She has been an assistant professor of Organic Chemistry at the Complutense University of Madrid since 2009. She has collaborated in more than 15 national and international research projects, and has been the PI of two projects. In 2012, she started collaborating with Dr. Villalonga on the synthesis of novel nanostructured materials to develop bioactive nanodevices and biosensors. Reynaldo Villalonga was born in 1970 in Matanzas, Cuba. He obtained his BSc and PhD degree in Chemistry at the University of Havana in 1993 and 2001, respectively. In 1996 he moved to the University of Matanzas, Cuba, where he founded the Enzyme Technology Group. At this university he was appointed as Full Professor and the Founding Director of the Center for Enzyme Technology in 2007. In 2010 he moved to the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain, where he held a Ramón y Cajal Research Professorship and was further appointed as an assistant professor of Analytical Chemistry and the head of the Nanosensors and Nanomachines Research Group. His research focuses on nanomaterials engineering, biosensors, neoglycoenzymes, carbohydrate chemistry and drug delivery systems. He has been recognized with several honors and awards, including seven prizes from the Cuban Academy of Sciences, the Development Cooperation Prize of Belgium (2001), the Third World Academy of Sciences Award for Young Chemists (2004), the National Award in Chemical Sciences (2006), the Prize of the Cuban Ministry of Science (2007), the Prize of the Ministry of Higher Education (2004, 2007), the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science Fellowship (2004, 2008), and the Carolina Foundation Fellowship (2007). Ramón Martínez-Máñez is a full Professor of Inorganic Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry at the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV), is the Head of the Interuniversity Research Institute for Molecular Recognition and Technological Development (IDM) in Valencia and the Scientific Director of the Biomedical Research Center Network in Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine (CIBER BBN). He has more than 380 publications ( h -index 61) of which more than 100 have been published in leading general chemistry journals. He has co-authored one scientific reference book published by Wiley in 2010 and is the co-author of 15 book chapters. He holds supervised 33 PhD theses and more than 20 patents. He is the Co-Chairman of the journal ChemistryOpen and a member of the International Advisory Board of the journals Chem. Asian. J. and ChemPlusChem, all published by Wiley-VCH. Recently he received the Research Excellence Award 2016 from the Real Sociedad Española de Química. He has been an active researcher in the fields of chromo-fluorogenic probes to detect ions and molecules of biological and environmental importance, some of which are based on hybrid nanomaterials. Moreover, he has also been working on the design of innovative gated nanodevices for controlled drug release using external stimuli.
Keywords
- Communication
- Enzymes
- Information processing
- Nanodevices
- Nanoparticles
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