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Spatiotemporal Control Over Protein Release from Artificial Cells via a Light‐Activatable Protease

Advanced Biology, EarlyView.
Stimulus‐responsive protein release is essential for intercellular communication. Mimicking this functionality in artificial cells is promising to study the working principles of cellular signaling. Herein, an engineered light‐activatable protease is implemented in a coacervate‐based artificial cell platform to establish user‐defined spatiotemporal ...
Arjan Hazegh Nikroo, Wiggert J. Altenburg, Thijs W. van Veldhuisen, Luc Brunsveld, Jan C. M. van Hest   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Research of Liquid-Crystal Materials for a High-Performance FFS-TFT Display

Molecules, 2023
A novel liquid-crystal compound of more than 99.95% purity with high performance (such as a high clearing point, large dielectric anisotropy, high optical anisotropy, low viscosity, and large elastic constants) was designed and synthesized according to ...
Haiguang Chen, Youran Liu, Maoxian Chen, Tianmeng Jiang, Lanying Zhang, Zhou Yang, Huai Yang   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Liquid Crystals and Their Defects [PDF]

, 2017
These lecture notes discuss classical models of liquid crystals, and the different ways in which defects are described according to the different models.
openaire   +3 more sources

Colloidal cholesteric liquid crystal in spherical confinement

Nature Communications, 2016
The organization of nanoparticles in constrained geometries is an area of fundamental and practical importance. Spherical confinement of nanocolloids leads to new modes of packing, self-assembly, phase separation and relaxation of colloidal liquids ...
Yunfeng Li, Jeffrey Jun-Yan Suen, Elisabeth Prince, E. Larin, A. Klinkova, H. Thérien‐Aubin, Shoujun Zhu, Bai Yang, A. Helmy, O. Lavrentovich, E. Kumacheva   +10 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Toward Design Principles for Biomolecular Condensates for Metabolic Pathways

Advanced Biology, EarlyView.
Biomolecular condensates are membrane‐less compartments found through‐out nature which can serve as reaction crucibles for biochemical processes. This review explores the design strategies underlying how condensates can be used in biotechnology to enhance multistep enzyme cascades including enhancement by mass action and substrate channeling, and ...
Alain A.M. André, Nikita Rehnberg, Ankush Garg, Magnus Kjærgaard   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dynamic control of active droplets using light-responsive chiral liquid crystal environment

Communications Physics
Microscopic active droplets are of interest since they can be used to transport matter from one point to another. In this work, we demonstrate an approach to control the direction of active droplet propulsion by a photoresponsive cholesteric liquid ...
Vanessa Jirón, Mojtaba Rajabi, Hao Wang, Oleg D. Lavrentovich   +3 more
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Novel Biologically Active Glass Fiber Functionalized Using Magnesium Phosphate Cement Promotes Bone and Vascular Regeneration

Advanced Biology, EarlyView.
In this study, a new type of bioactive glass fiber ‐based composite magnesium phosphate bone cement is prepared and verified that its mechanical strength and biological properties. In addition, the cement may have played a biologically active role in the Notch and HIF signaling pathways.
Yuzheng Lu, Yanbo Shan, Yingjie Xiong, Jianting Ye, Yanbin Wu, Jipeng Song, Yao Zhang, Wancheng Lin, Haoye Meng, Wenjing Xu, Jiang Peng, Qiang Lu, Lixiang Ding   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Temperature-driven anchoring transitions at liquid crystal / water interfaces [PDF]

, 2018
Controlling the anchoring of liquid crystal molecules at an interface with a water solution influences the entire organization of the underlying liquid crystal phase, which is crucial for many applications. The simplest way to stabilize such interfaces is by fabricating droplets of liquid crystal in water; however, a greater sensitivity to interfacial ...
arxiv   +1 more source

On the hydrodynamics of hyperbolic liquid crystal elastomers [PDF]

arXiv, 2023
Liquid crystal elastomers are special cross-linked polymer materials combining the large elastic deformability of elastomers with the orientational orders of liquid crystals. This model exhibits markedly different phenomena than the liquid crystal model due to the strong coupling between mechanical elastic deformation and orientation vector.
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Hydrogel‐Based Capacitive Sensor Model for Ammonium Monitoring in Aquaculture

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
Traditional techniques for monitoring aquaculture water quality, particularly ammonium levels, harm fish. This work presents a novel capacitive sensor with an ionic hydrogel transducer to monitor ammonium concentration in real time based on the ammonium‐induced hydrogel dissociation and osmotic pressure. Monitoring aquaculture water quality, especially
Mohammad Mirzaee, Mahdi Askari‐sedeh, Ali Zolfagharian, Mostafa Baghani   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source