Artificial cells: past, present and future

W Jiang, Z Wu, Z Gao, M Wan, M Zhou, C Mao… - ACS nano, 2022‏ - ACS Publications
Artificial cells are constructed to imitate natural cells and allow researchers to explore
biological process and the origin of life. The construction methods for artificial cells, through …

Protocells: Milestones and recent advances

I Gözen, ES Köksal, I Põldsalu, L Xue, K Spustova… - Small, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Artificial cells: from basic science to applications

C Xu, S Hu, X Chen - Materials Today, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Artificial cells have attracted much attention as substitutes for natural cells. There are many
different forms of artificial cells with many different definitions. They can be integral biological …

Colloidal capsules: nano-and microcapsules with colloidal particle shells

T Bollhorst, K Rezwan, M Maas - Chemical Society Reviews, 2017‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Utilizing colloidal particles for the assembly of the shell of nano-and microcapsules holds
great promise for the tailor-made design of new functional materials. Increasing research …

[PDF][PDF] Cell‐inspired all‐aqueous microfluidics: from intracellular liquid–liquid phase separation toward advanced biomaterials

Q Ma, Y Song, W Sun, J Cao, H Yuan… - Advanced …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Living cells have evolved over billions of years to develop structural and functional
complexity with numerous intracellular compartments that are formed due to liquid–liquid …

Electrostatically gated membrane permeability in inorganic protocells

M Li, RL Harbron, JVM Weaver, BP Binks, S Mann - Nature chemistry, 2013‏ - nature.com
Although several strategies are now available to produce functional microcompartments
analogous to primitive cell-like structures, little progress has been made in generating …

Fabrication of fibrillosomes from droplets stabilized by protein nanofibrils at all-aqueous interfaces

Y Song, U Shimanovich, TCT Michaels, Q Ma… - Nature …, 2016‏ - nature.com
All-aqueous emulsions exploit spontaneous liquid–liquid separation and due to their water-
based nature are particular advantageous for the biocompatible storage and processing of …

[HTML][HTML] Clays and the origin of life: The experiments

JT Kloprogge, H Hartman - Life, 2022‏ - mdpi.com
There are three groups of scientists dominating the search for the origin of life: the organic
chemists (the Soup), the molecular biologists (RNA world), and the inorganic chemists …

Synthetic cellularity based on non-lipid micro-compartments and protocell models

M Li, X Huang, TYD Tang, S Mann - Current opinion in chemical biology, 2014‏ - Elsevier
Highlights•Alternative models of protocell micro-compartmentalization based on non-lipid
building blocks are reviewed.•Inorganic protocells are prepared by interfacial assembly of …

Chemical signaling and functional activation in colloidosome‐based protocells

S Sun, M Li, F Dong, S Wang, L Tian, S Mann - Small, 2016‏ - Wiley Online Library
An aqueous‐based microcompartmentalized model involving the integration of partially
hydrophobic Fe (III)‐rich montmorillonite (FeM) clay particles as structural and catalytic …