Achieving Control in Micro‐/Nanomotor Mobility

AD Fusi, Y Li, A Llopis‐Lorente, T Patiño… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Unprecedented opportunities exist for the generation of advanced nanotechnologies based
on synthetic micro/nanomotors (MNMs), such as active transport of medical agents or the …

Systems chemistry of peptide-assemblies for biochemical transformations

A Chatterjee, A Reja, S Pal, D Das - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
During the billions of years of the evolutionary journey, primitive polymers, involved in proto
metabolic pathways with low catalytic activity, played critical roles in the emergence of …

Complex coacervate materials as artificial cells

AB Cook, S Novosedlik… - Accounts of Materials …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Cells have evolved to be self-sustaining compartmentalized systems that
consist of many thousands of biomolecules and metabolites interacting in complex cycles …

Coacervate droplets for synthetic cells

Z Lin, T Beneyton, JC Baret, N Martin - Small Methods, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The design and construction of synthetic cells–human‐made microcompartments that mimic
features of living cells–have experienced a real boom in the past decade. While many efforts …

Smart droplets stabilized by designer surfactants: from biomimicry to active motion to materials healing

Z Yang, D Snyder, A Sathyan, A Balazs… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The science and technologies of emulsion droplets have been a long‐term focus of
extensive research endeavors for their practical utility across a breadth of industries …

Hybrid enzymatic/Photocatalytic degradation of antibiotics via morphologically programmable light‐driven ZnO microrobots

CM Oral, M Ussia, M Pumera - Small, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Antibiotics are antimicrobial substances that can be used for preventive and therapeutic
purposes in humans and animals. Their overdose usage has led to uncontrolled release to …

Confined motion: motility of active microparticles in cell-sized lipid vesicles

S Song, A Llopis-Lorente, AF Mason… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Active materials can transduce external energy into kinetic energy at the nano and micron
length scales. This unique feature has sparked much research, which ranges from achieving …

Chemical zymogens for the protein cysteinome

MC Montasell, P Monge, S Carmali… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
We present three classes of chemical zymogens established around the protein cysteinome.
In each case, the cysteine thiol group was converted into a mixed disulfide: with a small …

Toward Artificial Cell‐Mediated Tissue Engineering: A New Perspective

Y Sümbelli, AF Mason, JCM van Hest - Advanced Biology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The fast‐growing pace of regenerative medicine research has allowed the development of a
range of novel approaches to tissue engineering applications. Until recently, the main points …

Light‐Activated Membrane Transport in Polymeric Cell‐Mimics

S Cao, LC da Silva, K Landfester - Angewandte Chemie, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Giant polymersomes are versatile and stable biomimetic compartments that are ideal for
building cell‐like systems. However, the transport of hydrophilic molecules across the …