Peptide self-assembly through liquid-liquid phase separation

C Yuan, Q Li, R **ng, J Li, X Yan - Chem, 2023‏ - cell.com
Peptide self-assembly provides an innovative strategy for not only establishing an ideal
research model to understand life phenomena but also for constructing sophisticated …

Non-classical crystallization in soft and organic materials

JS Du, Y Bae, JJ De Yoreo - Nature Reviews Materials, 2024‏ - nature.com
Classical nucleation and crystal growth theories describe how nuclei form, become stable
after reaching a critical size and then enlarge through monomer attachment. More than two …

Supramolecular polymers form tactoids through liquid–liquid phase separation

H Fu, J Huang, JJB van der Tol, L Su, Y Wang, S Dey… - Nature, 2024‏ - nature.com
Liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS) of biopolymers has recently been shown to play a
central role in the formation of membraneless organelles with a multitude of biological …

Nucleation and growth in solution synthesis of nanostructures–from fundamentals to advanced applications

KJ Wu, CM Edmund, C Shang, Z Guo - Progress in Materials Science, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Nucleation and growth are two important and entwined processes in materials synthesis and
engineering. While understanding of the fundamental mechanisms of the processes remain …

Nanocrystal assemblies: Current advances and open problems

CL Bassani, G Van Anders, U Banin, D Baranov… - ACS …, 2024‏ - ACS Publications
We explore the potential of nanocrystals (a term used equivalently to nanoparticles) as
building blocks for nanomaterials, and the current advances and open challenges for …

Liquid phase condensation in cell physiology and disease

Y Shin, CP Brangwynne - Science, 2017‏ - science.org
BACKGROUND Living cells contain distinct subcompartments to facilitate spatiotemporal
regulation of biological reactions. In addition to canonical membrane-bound organelles such …

Self-assembly of nanocrystals into strongly electronically coupled all-inorganic supercrystals

I Coropceanu, EM Janke, J Portner, D Haubold… - Science, 2022‏ - science.org
Colloidal nanocrystals of metals, semiconductors, and other functional materials can self-
assemble into long-range ordered crystalline and quasicrystalline phases, but insulating …

Nucleation and growth of amino acid and peptide supramolecular polymers through liquid–liquid phase separation

C Yuan, A Levin, W Chen, R **ng, Q Zou… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
The transition of peptides and proteins from the solution phase into fibrillar structures is a
general phenomenon encountered in functional and aberrant biology and is increasingly …

Crystallization in confinement

FC Meldrum, C O'Shaughnessy - Advanced Materials, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Many crystallization processes of great importance, including frost heave, biomineralization,
the synthesis of nanomaterials, and scale formation, occur in small volumes rather than bulk …

Protein phase separation: a new phase in cell biology

S Boeynaems, S Alberti, NL Fawzi, T Mittag… - Trends in cell …, 2018‏ - cell.com
Cellular compartments and organelles organize biological matter. Most well-known
organelles are separated by a membrane boundary from their surrounding milieu. There are …