The understanding of the shape-change dynamics leading to the budding and division of
artificial cells has gained much attention in the past few decades due to an increased …

This study delves into the formation of nanoscale polyhedral block copolymer particles
(PBCPs) exhibiting cubic, octahedral, and variant geometries. These structures represent a …

The creation of “soft” deformable hollow polymeric nanoparticles with complex non-spherical
shapes via block copolymer self-assembly remains a challenge. In this work, we show that a …

The process of osmosis, a fundamental phenomenon in life, drives water through a
semipermeable membrane in response to a solute concentration gradient across this …

Despite the rapidly growing amount of knowledge on the structure and function of cells, they
remain a distant bottom‐up synthetic target due to their overwhelming complexity. A path to …

We investigated the effects of lipid geometry on vesicle division using coarse grained
molecular dynamics simulations. When the vesicle is composed of zero and negative …

Amphiphilic derivatives of fullerene C60 are attractive from viewpoints of supramolecular
chemistry and biomedicine. The establishment of relationships among the molecular …

Liquid crystalline phases found in many biological materials, such as actin, DNA, cellulose,
and collagen can be responsible for the deformation of cell membranes. In this paper, cell …

A major bottleneck in the development of small-molecule antibiotics is to achieve good
permeability across the outer membrane in Gram-negative bacteria. Optimization with …

Understanding the water permeation through a cell membrane is of primary importance for
biological activities and a key step to capture its shape transformation in salt solution. In this …