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SUBMITTER: Engwerda AHJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7692917 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Engwerda Anthonius H J AHJ Southworth Josh J Lebedeva Maria A MA Scanes Robert J H RJH Kukura Philipp P Fletcher Stephen P SP
Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) 20200903 46
We report chemically fuelled out-of-equilibrium self-replicating vesicles based on surfactant formation. We studied the vesicles' autocatalytic formation using UPLC to determine monomer concentration and interferometric scattering microscopy at the nanoparticle level. Unlike related reports of chemically fuelled self-replicating micelles, our vesicular system was too stable to surfactant degradation to be maintained out of equilibrium. The introduction of a catalyst, which introduces a second ca ...[more]