Sculpting and fusing biomimetic vesicle networks using optical tweezers

Guido Bolognesi; Mark S. Friddin; Ali Salehi-Reyhani; Nathan E. Barlow; Nicholas J. Brooks; Oscar Ces; Yuval Elani

doi:10.1038/s41467-018-04282-w

Nature Communications (May 2018)

Sculpting and fusing biomimetic vesicle networks using optical tweezers

Guido Bolognesi,
Mark S. Friddin,
Ali Salehi-Reyhani,
Nathan E. Barlow,
Nicholas J. Brooks,
Oscar Ces,
Yuval Elani

Affiliations

Guido Bolognesi: Department of Chemical Engineering, Loughborough University
Mark S. Friddin: Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London
Ali Salehi-Reyhani: Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London
Nathan E. Barlow: Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London
Nicholas J. Brooks: Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London
Oscar Ces: Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London
Yuval Elani: Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04282-w
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Assembly of higher-order artificial vesicles can unlock new applications. Here, the authors use optical tweezers to construct user-defined 2D and 3D architectures of chemically distinct vesicles and demonstrate inter-vesicle communication and light-enabled compartment merging.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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