Artificial cells: past, present and future

W Jiang, Z Wu, Z Gao, M Wan, M Zhou, C Mao… - ACS nano, 2022‏ - ACS Publications
Artificial cells are constructed to imitate natural cells and allow researchers to explore
biological process and the origin of life. The construction methods for artificial cells, through …

Molecular ratchets and kinetic asymmetry: giving chemistry direction

S Borsley, DA Leigh… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Over the last two decades ratchet mechanisms have transformed the understanding and
design of stochastic molecular systems—biological, chemical and physical—in a move away …

From responsive to adaptive and interactive materials and materials systems: A roadmap

A Walther - Advanced Materials, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Soft matter systems and materials are moving toward adaptive and interactive behavior,
which holds outstanding promise to make the next generation of intelligent soft materials …

Life-like motion driven by artificial molecular machines

F Lancia, A Ryabchun, N Katsonis - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2019‏ - nature.com
Essentially, all motion in living organisms emerges from the collective action of biological
molecular machines transforming chemical energy, originally harvested from light, into …

Artificial cells: synthetic compartments with life-like functionality and adaptivity

BC Buddingh', JCM van Hest - Accounts of chemical research, 2017‏ - ACS Publications
Conspectus Cells are highly advanced microreactors that form the basis of all life. Their
fascinating complexity has inspired scientists to create analogs from synthetic and natural …

Solid-state nanopore systems: from materials to applications

Y He, M Tsutsui, Y Zhou, XS Miao - NPG Asia Materials, 2021‏ - nature.com
Ion transport and hydrodynamic flow through nanometer-sized channels (nanopores) have
been increasingly studied owing to not only the fundamental interest in the abundance of …

Materials learning from life: concepts for active, adaptive and autonomous molecular systems

R Merindol, A Walther - Chemical Society Reviews, 2017‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Bioinspired out-of-equilibrium systems will set the scene for the next generation of molecular
materials with active, adaptive, autonomous, emergent and intelligent behavior. Indeed life …

Chemical engines: driving systems away from equilibrium through catalyst reaction cycles

S Amano, S Borsley, DA Leigh, Z Sun - Nature Nanotechnology, 2021‏ - nature.com
Biological systems exhibit a range of complex functions at the micro-and nanoscales under
non-equilibrium conditions (for example, transportation and motility, temporal control …

Fast and compact DNA logic circuits based on single-stranded gates using strand-displacing polymerase

T Song, A Eshra, S Shah, H Bui, D Fu, M Yang… - Nature …, 2019‏ - nature.com
DNA is a reliable biomolecule with which to build molecular computation systems. In
particular, DNA logic circuits (diffusion-based) have shown good performance regarding …

Putting precision and elegance in enzyme immobilisation with bio-orthogonal chemistry

X Pei, Z Luo, L Qiao, Q **ao, P Zhang… - Chemical Society …, 2022‏ - pubs.rsc.org
The covalent immobilisation of enzymes generally involves the use of highly reactive
crosslinkers, such as glutaraldehyde, to couple enzyme molecules to each other or to …