Budding-like division of all-aqueous emulsion droplets modulated by networks of protein nanofibrils

Yang Song; Thomas C. T. Michaels; Qingming Ma; Zhou Liu; Hao Yuan; Shuichi Takayama; Tuomas P. J. Knowles; Ho Cheung Shum

doi:10.1038/s41467-018-04510-3

Nature Communications (May 2018)

Budding-like division of all-aqueous emulsion droplets modulated by networks of protein nanofibrils

Yang Song,
Thomas C. T. Michaels,
Qingming Ma,
Zhou Liu,
Hao Yuan,
Shuichi Takayama,
Tuomas P. J. Knowles,
Ho Cheung Shum

Affiliations

Yang Song: Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Hong Kong
Thomas C. T. Michaels: Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge
Qingming Ma: Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Hong Kong
Zhou Liu: Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Hong Kong
Hao Yuan: Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Hong Kong
Shuichi Takayama: Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Tuomas P. J. Knowles: Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge
Ho Cheung Shum: Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Hong Kong

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04510-3
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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The cytoskeleton, a network of fibrils, controls how cells divide. Here, the authors show that synthetic protein fibrils added to an emulsion can control the division of droplets and that this method can be used to control the morphology of microparticles during biomaterial preparation.

Published in Nature Communications

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