Polymeric microspheres (PMs) have attracted great attention in the field of biomedicine in
the last several decades due to their small particle size, special functionalities shown on the …

The origin of life is still one of humankind's great mysteries. At the transition between
nonliving and living matter, protocells, initially featureless aggregates of abiotic matter, gain …

The sheet‐like lipid bilayer is the fundamental structural component of all cell membranes.
Its building blocks are phospholipids and cholesterol. Their amphiphilic structure …

The bottom‐up construction of a synthetic cell from nonliving building blocks capable of
mimicking cellular properties and behaviors helps to understand the particular biophysical …

The size and shape of polymer materials is becoming an increasingly important property in
accessing new functions and applications of nano‐/microparticles in many scientific fields …

The desire to create cell-like models for fundamental science and applications has spurred
extensive effort toward creating giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs). However, a route to …

The origin of life on Earth required myriads of chemical and physical processes. These
include the formation of the planet and its geological structures, the formation of the first …

Membrane enclosed intracellular compartments have previously been exclusively
associated with the eukaryotes, represented by the highly compartmentalized last eukaryotic …

Over the past decades, advances in lipid nanotechnology have shown that self-assembled
lipid structures providing ease of preparation, chemical stability, and biocompatibility …

We show the assembly of carboxylate-modified polystyrene nanoparticles into flexible
circular, ring-shaped structures with micrometer sized diameters around the base of surface …