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 …

Living and proliferating cells undergo repeated cycles of growth, replication and division, all
orchestrated by complex molecular networks. How a minimal cell cycle emerged and helped …

Coacervates droplets have long been considered as potential protocells to mimic living
cells. However, these droplets lack a membrane and are prone to coalescence, limiting their …

The formation of cytomimetic protocells that capture the physicochemical aspects of living
cells is an important goal in bottom-up synthetic biology. Here, we recreated the crowded …

Complex coacervates are phase‐separated liquid droplets composed of oppositely charged
multivalent molecules. The unique material properties of the complex coacervate interior …

Osmotic pressure (Π) induces membrane tension in cells and lipid vesicles, which may affect
the activity of antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) by an unknown mechanism. We recently …

Most current research on food-relevant Pickering emulsions has been conducted using
inorganic or food-compatible organic particles as emulsifiers. A key challenge is maintaining …

One of the grand challenges of amphiphilic self‐assembly is the design of ordered structures
whose morphology or shape can be explicitly and dynamically controlled by adjusting the …

The intracellular environment is crowded with macromolecules that influence biochemical
equilibria and biomacromolecule diffusion. The incorporation of such crowding in synthetic …

Resealing of membrane pores is crucial for cell survival. Membrane surface charge and
medium composition are studied as defining regulators of membrane stability. Pores are …