Fabrication, assembly, and application of patchy particles

AB Pawar, I Kretzschmar - Macromolecular rapid …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The site‐specific engineering of colloidal surfaces has provided a powerful approach to
pushing the boundaries of today's materials research. The resulting surface‐anisotropic and …

The self-assembly, aggregation and phase transitions of food protein systems in one, two and three dimensions

R Mezzenga, P Fischer - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
The aggregation of proteins is of fundamental relevance in a number of daily phenomena,
as important and diverse as blood coagulation, medical diseases, or cooking an egg in the …

Patchy colloids: state of the art and perspectives

E Bianchi, R Blaak, CN Likos - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
Recently, an increasing experimental effort has been devoted to the synthesis of complex
colloidal particles with chemically or physically patterned surfaces and possible specific …

Dynamics of proteins in solution

M Grimaldo, F Roosen-Runge, F Zhang… - Quarterly Reviews of …, 2019 - cambridge.org
The dynamics of proteins in solution includes a variety of processes, such as backbone and
side-chain fluctuations, interdomain motions, as well as global rotational and translational …

Protein phase separation arising from intrinsic disorder: first-principles to bespoke applications

DM Shapiro, M Ney, SA Eghtesadi… - The Journal of Physical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The phase separation of biomolecules has become the focus of intense research in the past
decade, with a growing body of research implicating this phenomenon in essentially all …

Assembly of food proteins for nano-encapsulation and delivery of nutraceuticals (a mini-review)

CH Tang - Food Hydrocolloids, 2021 - Elsevier
Incorporation of hydrophobic and poorly soluble nutraceuticals into food formulations is
among the great challenges in food science and pharmaceutical fields. One effective …

Thermodynamically driven assemblies and liquid–liquid phase separations in biology

H Falahati, A Haji-Akbari - Soft matter, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
The sustenance of life depends on the high degree of organization that prevails through
different levels of living organisms, from subcellular structures such as biomolecular …

Potential and limits of a colloid approach to protein solutions

A Stradner, P Schurtenberger - Soft Matter, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Looking at globular proteins with the eyes of a colloid scientist has a long tradition, in fact a
significant part of the early colloid literature was focused on protein solutions. However, it …

The physics of empty liquids: From patchy particles to water

J Russo, F Leoni, F Martelli… - Reports on Progress in …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
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 …

Multivalent ions and biomolecules: Attempting a comprehensive perspective

O Matsarskaia, F Roosen‐Runge… - ChemPhysChem, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Ions are ubiquitous in nature. They play a key role for many biological processes on the
molecular scale, from molecular interactions, to mechanical properties, to folding, to self …