Engineering motile aqueous phase-separated droplets via liposome stabilisation

oleh: Shaobin Zhang, Claudia Contini, James W. Hindley, Guido Bolognesi, Yuval Elani, Oscar Ces

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2021-03-01

Deskripsi

Bio-mimetic motion has been hard to achieve due to a lack of biocompatible conditions. Here, the authors report the creation of a liposome-stabilised aqueous PEG/dextran Pickering-like emulsion system with motion induced by the Marangoni effect and characterised by negative chemotaxis.