Coacervation of Surface-Functionalized Polymerized Vesicles Derived...

Received for review September 23, 2008. Accepted October 29, 2008. Abstract: The potential of polymerized vesicle coacervates made up of ammonium bromide surfactants for the extraction of metallic ions from ...

Construction of Asymmetric Cell-Sized Lipid Vesicles from Lipid-Coated Water-in-Oil Microdroplets

School of Materials Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 1-1 Asahidai, Nomi, Ishikawa 923-1292, Japan Received: September 2, 2008 Abstract: We present a simple, rapid, and robust method ...

Macromolecular Crowding Improves Polymer Encapsulation within Giant Lipid Vesicles

Lisa M. Dominak and Christine D. Keating * Received August 29, 2008 Abstract: We report the effect of macromolecular crowding on encapsulation efficiency of fluorescently labeled poly and dextran polymers ...

Delivery and Expression of DNA and RNA, A Laboratory Manual to Gene Transfer

Understanding gene function and regulation requires rigorous testing in live cells and organisms.

Preparation of Primary Amine-Based Block Copolymer Vesicles by Direct ...

Jianzhong Du * and Steven P. Armes Department of Chemistry, The University of Sheffield, Brook Hill, Sheffield S3 7HF, United Kingdom Received August 3, 2008 Abstract: A new amphiphilic biocompatible diblock ...

Vesicles Prepared from Supramolecular Block Copolymers

Jian Qian †‡ and Feipeng Wu *† Laboratory of Organic Optoelectronic Functional Materials and Molecular Engineering, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, The Chinese Academy of ...

Vesicle diffusion close to a membrane: intermembrane interactions...

For the first time, we experimentally and theoretically investigated the dynamics of small vesicles that are diffusing near supported planar bilayers acting as "target" membranes.

Encapsulation Efficiency Measured on Single Small Unilamellar Vesicles

Pierre-Yves Bolinger , and Dimitrios Stamou * Bio−Nanotechnology Laboratory, Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology & Nano−Science Center, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 5, 2100 ...

Dimpled Vesicles: The Interplay between Energetics and Transient Pores

Its dimpled configurations are unique cell shapes and display malleability to form echinocytes, discocytes and stomatocytes, in response to external perturbations.

PELDOR Conformational Analysis of bis-Labeled Alamethicin Aggregated in Phospholipid Vesicles

Institute of Chemical Kinetics and Combustion, Novosibirsk, 630090 Russian Federation, Institute of Biomolecular Chemistry, Padova Unit, CNR, Department of Chemistry, University of Padova, 35131 Padova, Italy, ...