Although several strategies are now available to produce functional microcompartments analogous to primitive cell-like structures, little progress has been made in generating protocell constructs with self-controlled membrane permeability. Here we describe the preparation of water-dispersible colloidosomes based on silica nanoparticles and delineated by a continuous semipermeable inorganic membrane capable of self-activated, electrostatically gated permeability. We use crosslinking and covalent grafting of a pH-responsive copolymer to generate an ultrathin elastic membrane that exhibits selective release and uptake of small molecules. This behaviour, which depends on the charge of the copolymer coronal layer, serves to trigger enzymatic dep...
Abstract As the preliminary synthetic analogs of living cells, protocells with life‐like features se...
We present a general strategy to nanoengineer protein-based colloidal spheres (biomimetic protocells...
The programming of protocells to implement and control the functions of living cells through activat...
Although several strategies are now available to produce functional microcompartments analogous to p...
Controlling the dynamics of mixed communities of cell-like entities (protocells) provides a step tow...
Silica nanoparticles with a balance of hydrophilic and hydrophobic surface properties exhibit surfac...
Complex coacervate microdroplets are finding increased utility in synthetic cell applications due to...
The spontaneous assembly of micro-compartmentalized colloidal objects capable of controlled interact...
A living system profoundly relies on mass, information and energy interactions through cell-cell and...
Although complex coacervate microdroplets derived from associative phase separation of counter-charg...
The spontaneous assembly of nanoscale building blocks into continuous semipermeable membranes is a k...
Despite the low complexity of their components, several simple physical systems, including microsphe...
Artificial cell-like communities participate in diverse modes of chemical interaction but exhibit mi...
Despite the low complexity of their components, several simple physical systems, including microsphe...
Fabrication of compartmentalised chemical systems with nested architectures and biomimetic propertie...
Abstract As the preliminary synthetic analogs of living cells, protocells with life‐like features se...
We present a general strategy to nanoengineer protein-based colloidal spheres (biomimetic protocells...
The programming of protocells to implement and control the functions of living cells through activat...
Although several strategies are now available to produce functional microcompartments analogous to p...
Controlling the dynamics of mixed communities of cell-like entities (protocells) provides a step tow...
Silica nanoparticles with a balance of hydrophilic and hydrophobic surface properties exhibit surfac...
Complex coacervate microdroplets are finding increased utility in synthetic cell applications due to...
The spontaneous assembly of micro-compartmentalized colloidal objects capable of controlled interact...
A living system profoundly relies on mass, information and energy interactions through cell-cell and...
Although complex coacervate microdroplets derived from associative phase separation of counter-charg...
The spontaneous assembly of nanoscale building blocks into continuous semipermeable membranes is a k...
Despite the low complexity of their components, several simple physical systems, including microsphe...
Artificial cell-like communities participate in diverse modes of chemical interaction but exhibit mi...
Despite the low complexity of their components, several simple physical systems, including microsphe...
Fabrication of compartmentalised chemical systems with nested architectures and biomimetic propertie...
Abstract As the preliminary synthetic analogs of living cells, protocells with life‐like features se...
We present a general strategy to nanoengineer protein-based colloidal spheres (biomimetic protocells...
The programming of protocells to implement and control the functions of living cells through activat...