Drying of bio-colloidal sessile droplets: Advances, applications, and perspectives

A Pal, A Gope, A Sengupta - Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Drying of biologically-relevant sessile droplets, including passive systems such as DNA,
proteins, plasma, and blood, as well as active microbial systems comprising bacterial and …

Dynamic self-assembly of compartmentalized DNA nanotubes

S Agarwal, MA Klocke, PE Pungchai… - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
Bottom-up synthetic biology aims to engineer artificial cells capable of responsive behaviors
by using a minimal set of molecular components. An important challenge toward this goal is …

Temperature and concentration dependence of human whole blood and protein drying droplets

A Pal, A Gope, G Iannacchione - Biomolecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
The drying of bio-colloidal droplets can be used in many medical and forensic applications.
The whole human blood is the most complex bio-colloid system, whereas bovine serum …

A comparative study of the drying evolution and dried morphology of two globular proteins in de-ionized water solutions

A Pal, A Gope, AS Athair, GS Iannacchione - RSC advances, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Pattern formation in drying protein droplets continues to attract considerable research
attention because it can be linked to specific protein–protein interactions. An extensive study …

Effects of substrate temperature on patterns produced by dried droplets of proteins

YJP Carreón, M Ríos-Ramírez… - Colloids and Surfaces B …, 2021 - Elsevier
Rapid diagnosis provides better clinical management of patients, helps control possible
outbreaks, and increases survival. The study of deposits produced by the evaporation of …

Concentration-driven phase transition and self-assembly in drying droplets of diluting whole blood

A Pal, A Gope, JD Obayemi, GS Iannacchione - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Multi-colloidal systems exhibit a variety of structural and functional complexity owing to their
ability to interact amongst different components into self-assembled structures. This paper …

Phase separation of a nematic liquid crystal in the self-assembly of lysozyme in a drying aqueous solution drop

A Pal, A Gope, R Kafle, GS Iannacchione - MRS Communications, 2019 - Springer
This paper discusses the unique patterns evolved through phase separation of a bulk liquid
crystal (LC) from the self-assembly of lysozyme induced by evaporation of de-ionized water …

[HTML][HTML] Hierarchical exploration of drying patterns formed in drops containing lysozyme, pbs, and liquid crystals

A Pal, A Gope, GS Iannacchione - Processes, 2022 - mdpi.com
Biological systems, by nature, are highly complex. These systems exhibit diverse
hierarchical spatial and temporal features when driven far from equilibrium. The generated …

[HTML][HTML] Texture analysis of dried droplets for the quality control of medicines

YJP Carreón, O Díaz-Hernández, GJ Escalera Santos… - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
The quality control of medicines guarantees the effectiveness of treatments for diseases. We
explore the use of texture analysis of patterns in dried droplets as a tool to readily detect …

Dried droplets of diluted blood to detect a high concentration of lipids

M Ancheyta-Palacios, IG Velasco-Terán, YJP Carreón… - Processes, 2023 - mdpi.com
Hyperlipidemia is the elevated concentration of lipids in the blood, and it increases the
probability of arterial obstruction, infarctions, and other complications of the circulatory …