Droplet microfluidics offers exquisite control over the flows of multiple fluids in microscale,
enabling fabrication of advanced microparticles with precisely tunable structures and …

Compounds with a nitrobenzoxadiazole (NBD) skeleton exhibit prominent useful properties
including environmental sensitivity, high reactivity toward amines and biothiols (including …

Cell membrane coated nanoparticles (NPs) have recently been recognized as attractive
nanomedical tools because of their unique properties such as immune escape, long blood …

Methods for depositing thin films are important in generating functional materials for diverse
applications in a wide variety of fields. Over the last half-century, the layer-by-layer assembly …

BACKGROUND Over the past few decades, layer-by-layer (LbL) assembly of thin films has
been of considerable interest because of its ability to exert nanometer control over film …

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 …

Compartments for the spatially and temporally controlled assembly of biological processes
are essential towards cellular life. Synthetic mimics of cellular compartments based on lipid …

Liposomes were the first nanoscale drug to be approved for clinical use in 1995. Since then,
the technology has grown considerably, and pioneering recent work in liposome-based …

With the ultimate aim to construct a living cell, bottom-up synthetic biology strives to
reconstitute cellular phenomena in vitro–disentangled from the complex environment of a …

Droplet microfluidics is a relatively new and rapidly evolving field of science focused on
studying the hydrodynamics and properties of biphasic flows at the microscale, and on the …