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SUBMITTER: Song Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5974351 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Song Yang Y Michaels Thomas C T TCT Ma Qingming Q Liu Zhou Z Yuan Hao H Takayama Shuichi S Knowles Tuomas P J TPJ Shum Ho Cheung HC
Nature communications 20180529 1
Networks of natural protein nanofibrils, such as cytoskeletal filaments, control the shape and the division of cells, yet mimicking this functionality in a synthetic setting has proved challenging. Here, we demonstrate that artificial networks of protein nanofibrils can induce controlled deformation and division of all-aqueous emulsion droplets with budding-like morphologies. We show that this process is driven by the difference in the immersional wetting energy of the nanofibril network, and th ...[more]