Cecilia Oluwadunsin Akintayo

Project

Mechanofluorescent, Self-Reporting DNA Hydrogel Materials
I am interested in mechano-adaptive DNA Hydrogels. The overall aim of my research is to understand and develop logically behaving mechanoadaptive materials with self-reporting abilities. Mechanical materials that are, for example, capable of self-learning/forgetting while engaging the programmability of DNA.

First supervisor

Prof. Dr. Andreas Walther

Publications in livMatS

• Hierarchical Mechanical Transduction of Precision-Engineered DNA Hydrogels with Sacrificial Bonds*
  Lallemang, M., Akintayo, C. O., Wenzel, C., Chen, W., Sielaff, L., Ripp, A., Jessen, H. J., Bizan N., Walther, A. & Hugel, T. (2023). Hierarchical Mechanical Transduction of Precision-Engineered DNA Hydrogels with Sacrificial Bonds. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. doi: 10.1021/acsami.3c15135
• Tunable and Large-Scale Model Network StarPEG-DNA Hydrogels*
  Akintayo, C. O., Creusen, G., Straub, P., & Walther, A.(2021). Tunable and Large-Scale Model Network StarPEG-DNA Hydrogels. Macromolecules. doi: 10.1021/acs.macromol.1c00600
• Scalable One-Pot-Liquid-Phase Oligonucleotide Synthesis for Model Network Hydrogels*
  Creusen, G., Akintayo, C. O., Schumann, K., & Walther, A. (2020). Scalable One-Pot-Liquid-Phase Oligonucleotide Synthesis for Model Network Hydrogels. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 142(39), 16610-16621. doi: 10.1021/jacs.0c05488
  
  
  * Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany's Excellence Strategy – EXC-2193/1 – 390951807