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Protocellular Materials: A Floating Mold Technique for the Programmed Assembly of Protocells into Protocellular Materials Capable of Non‐Equilibrium Biochemical Sensing (Adv. Mater. 24/2021)
Author(s) -
Galanti Agostino,
MorenoTortolero Rafael O.,
Azad Raihan,
Cross Stephen,
Davis Sean,
Gobbo Pierangelo
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
advanced materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 10.707
H-Index - 527
eISSN - 1521-4095
pISSN - 0935-9648
DOI - 10.1002/adma.202170185
Subject(s) - protocell , nanotechnology , biomimetic materials , materials science , fabrication , biomimetics , microfluidics , microreactor , biochemical engineering , engineering , biology , membrane , medicine , genetics , alternative medicine , pathology , biochemistry , catalysis
The fabrication of tissue‐like materials capable of emergent bioinspired behaviors represents an emerging challenge of bottom‐up synthetic biology and biomimetic materials science. In article number 2100340, Pierangelo Gobbo and co‐workers report a new technique for the assembly of tissue‐like materials from protocell building blocks. The resulting “protocellular materials” are free‐standing, robust, and can be chemically programmed to display an emergent non‐equilibrium spatiotemporal sensing behavior.