Empty liquids represent a wide class of materials whose constituents arrange in a random network through reversible bonds. Many key insights on the physical properties of empty …
Y Sato, T Sakamoto, M Takinoue - Science advances, 2020 - science.org
DNA has the potential to achieve a controllable macromolecular structure, such as hydrogels or droplets formed through liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS), as the design of …
Artificial biomolecular condensates are emerging as a versatile approach to organize molecular targets and reactions without the need for lipid membranes. Here we ask whether …
C Kurokawa, K Fujiwara, M Morita… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Cell-sized liposomes and droplets coated with lipid layers have been used as platforms for understanding live cells, constructing artificial cells, and implementing functional biomedical …
R Merindol, S Loescher, A Samanta… - Nature nanotechnology, 2018 - nature.com
DNA has traditionally been used for the programmable design of nanostructures by exploiting its sequence-defined supramolecular recognition. However, control on larger …
We propose a coarse-grained model to investigate stress relaxation in star-polymer networks induced by dynamic bond-exchange processes. We show how the swapping …
DNA hydrogels are self-assembled biomaterials that rely on Watson–Crick base pairing to form large-scale programmable three-dimensional networks of nanostructured DNA …
DNA is a perfect polymeric molecule for interfacing biology with material science to construct hydrogels that represent fascinating properties for a wide variety of biomedical applications …
T Lee, S Do, JG Lee, DN Kim, Y Shin - Nanoscale, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Phase separation of biomolecules plays key roles in physiological compartmentalization as well as pathological aggregation. A deeper understanding of biomolecular phase separation …