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David K. Smith is affiliated with the University of York in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily falls within the field of Materials Science, with a significant focus on Biomaterials, Organic Chemistry, Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry, and Biomedical Engineering.

The scientist's work encompasses several key topics, including:

  • Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials
  • Supramolecular Chemistry and Complexes
  • Polydiacetylene-based materials and applications
  • Hydrogels: synthesis, properties, applications
  • Advanced Drug Delivery Systems
  • Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics
  • Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior

Recent publications by David K. Smith and collaborators include:

  • "Multicomponent polysaccharide alginate-based bioinks," 2020, Journal of Materials Chemistry B
  • "Supramolecular gels - a panorama of low-molecular-weight gelators from ancient origins to next-generation technologies," 2023, Soft Matter
  • "Catalytic Gels for a Prebiotically Relevant Asymmetric Aldol Reaction in Water: From Organocatalyst Design to Hydrogel Discovery and Back Again," 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Enhanced Delivery of Neuroactive Drugs via Nasal Delivery with a Self-Healing Supramolecular Gel," 2021, Advanced Science
  • "Two-component supramolecular hydrogel for controlled drug release," 2020, Chemical Communications

David K. Smith frequently publishes in venues such as:

  • Chemical Communications
  • Chemistry - A European Journal
  • Chemical Science
  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Nature Chemistry

The scientist's frequent co-authors include:

  • Carmen C. Piras
  • Paul G. Genever
  • Anna K. Patterson
  • Matteo Albino
  • Thomas J. Burden

The combination of these research areas and collaborations suggests a robust involvement in the study and development of materials with biological and chemical functions, particularly focusing on supramolecular assemblies and their applications in areas such as drug delivery and biomedical engineering.

Best Publications

  • High-tech applications of self-assembling supramolecular nanostructured gel-phase materials: from regenerative medicine to electronic devices.

    Andrew R. Hirst;Beatriu Escuder;Juan F. Miravet;David K. Smith

  • Applying low-molecular weight supramolecular gelators in an environmental setting – self-assembled gels as smart materials for pollutant removal

    Babatunde Omosehin Okesola;David Kelham Smith

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  • Functional Dendrimers: Unique Biological Mimics

    David K. Smith;François Diederich

  • Low-Molecular-Weight Gelators: Elucidating the Principles of Gelation Based on Gelator Solubility and a Cooperative Self-Assembly Model

    Andrew R. Hirst;Ian A. Coates;Thomas R. Boucheteau;Juan F. Miravet

  • Two-Component Gel-Phase Materials—Highly Tunable Self-Assembling Systems

    Andrew R. Hirst;David K. Smith

  • Lost in translation? Chirality effects in the self-assembly of nanostructured gel-phase materials.

    David K. Smith

  • Shaping and Structuring Supramolecular Gels

    Phillip Robert Anthony Chivers;David Kelham Smith

  • Two-component dendritic gels: easily tunable materials.

    Andrew R. Hirst;David K. Smith;Martin C. Feiters;Huub P. M. Geurts

  • Expanding the scope of gels – combining polymers with low-molecular-weight gelators to yield modified self-assembling smart materials with high-tech applications

    Daniel J. Cornwell;David K. Smith

  • Dendritic supermolecules--towards controllable nanomaterials.

    David K. Smith

  • Dendrimers and hyperbranched polymers

    Anne-Marie Caminade;Anne-Marie Caminade;Deyue Yan;David K. Smith

  • Anion Binding and Recognition by Inorganic Based Receptors

    Paul D. Beer;David K. Smith

  • Solvent effects on supramolecular gel-phase materials: two-component dendritic gel.

    Andrew R Hirst;David K Smith

  • Supramolecular dendritic two-component gel

    Kevin S. Partridge;David K. Smith;Graham M. Dykes;P. Terry McGrail

  • Neutral Ferrocenoyl Receptors for the Selective Recognition and Sensing of Anionic Guests.

    Paul D. Beer;Andrew R. Graydon;and Anna O. M. Johnson;David K. Smith

  • Heparin sensing and binding – taking supramolecular chemistry towards clinical applications

    Stephen M. Bromfield;Ellis Wilde;David K. Smith

  • Self-assembly using dendritic building blocks - towards controllable nanomaterials

    David K. Smith;Andrew R. Hirst;Christine S. Love;John G. Hardy

  • 1,3:2,4-Dibenzylidene-D-sorbitol (DBS) and its derivatives--efficient, versatile and industrially-relevant low-molecular-weight gelators with over 100 years of history and a bright future.

    Babatunde O. Okesola;Vânia M. P. Vieira;Daniel J. Cornwell;Nicole K. Whitelaw

  • Degradable self-assembling dendrons for gene delivery: experimental and theoretical insights into the barriers to cellular uptake.

    Anna Barnard;Paola Posocco;Sabrina Pricl;Marcelo Calderon

  • Self‐Assembled Multivalency: Dynamic Ligand Arrays for High‐Affinity Binding

    Anna Barnard;David K. Smith

Frequent Co-Authors

Sabrina Pricl
Sabrina Pricl University of Trieste
Paul D. Beer
Paul D. Beer University of Oxford
Maurizio Fermeglia
Maurizio Fermeglia University of Trieste
Beatriu Escuder
Beatriu Escuder Jaume I University
James H. Clark
James H. Clark University of York
Simon Jones
Simon Jones Microsoft (United States)
Mauri A. Kostiainen
Mauri A. Kostiainen Aalto University
Marcelo Calderón
Marcelo Calderón University of the Basque Country
Rainer Haag
Rainer Haag Freie Universität Berlin
Ian W. Hamley
Ian W. Hamley University of Reading

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