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Francesco Stellacci, Paulo Henrique Jacob Silva, Xufeng Xu, Camilla Servidio

Amphiphilic gold core nanoparticles (AmNPs) striped with hydrophilic 11-mercapto-1-undecanesulfonate (MUS) and hydrophobic 1-octanethiol (OT) ligands are promising candidates for drug carriers that passively and nondisruptively enter cells. Yet, how they i ...

Washington2023

Molecular ordering effects in bulk and at lipid/water nanoscopic interfaces: A story of water, light, and order

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Water is ubiquitous on Earth, playing a critical role for a plethora of structures, processes and chemical reactions in nature. Its unique physicochemical properties originate mainly from its hydrogen bond network. Despite its recognized importance, many a ...

EPFL2021

Amphiphilic nanoparticles generate curvature in lipid membranes and shape liposome-liposome interfaces

Francesco Stellacci, Francesca Olgiati

We show by molecular dynamics that amphiphilic Au nanoparticles (NP) with a diameter of 4 nm generate curvature in phosphatidylcholine lipid membranes. NPs generate negative curvature when they adsorb on the membrane surface but, as they get spontaneously ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2021

Cholesterol Hinders the Passive Uptake of Amphiphilic Nanoparticles into Fluid Lipid Membranes

Francesco Stellacci, Matteo Gasbarri, Ester Canepa, Giulia Rossi

Plasma membranes represent pharmacokinetic barriers for the passive transport of site-specific drugs within cells. When engineered nanoparticles (NPs) are considered as transmembrane drug carriers, the plasma membrane composition can affect passive NP inte ...

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Soft matter probed by nonlinear scattering: self-assembly, interfaces, hydration, and long-range order

Jan Dedic

All organisms are made to a large extent of soft matter - macromolecules such as proteins and polysaccharides, or assemblies of small molecules such as lipids embedded in an aqueous environment. Understanding the role of order in soft matter presents a cha ...

EPFL2020

Dissipative particle dynamics simulations of tri-block co-polymer and water: Phase diagram validation and microstructure identification

Ignacio Pagonabarraga Mora

In this study, the phase diagram of Pluronic L64 and water is simulated via dissipative particle dynamics (DPD). The peculiar structures that form when the concentration varies from dilute to dense (i.e., spherical and rod-like micelles, hexagonal and lame ...

2018

Nanoparticle Liposome Interactions

Zekiye Pelin Güven

Protein-mimetic materials are of great interest for biotechnology to grant protein-like properties to artificial systems. Additionally, these materials can be used to shed light on the fundamental properties of proteins in many environments. Nanoparticles, ...

EPFL2018

Lipid membrane characterization with second harmonic scattering

Cornelis Ulrich Lütgebaucks

Membranes, composed of a variety of lipids and other biomolecules, mediate signaling processes between cells and their aqueous environment. To fulfill this function, membranes can vary their composition leaflet-specific and thus alter their surface propert ...

EPFL2017

Infrared Plasmonic Biosensor for Real-Time and Label-Free Monitoring of Lipid Membranes

Hatice Altug, Dordaneh Etezadi, Daniel Rodrigo Lopez, Odeta Limaj

In this work, we present an infrared plasmonic biosensor for chemical-specific detection and monitoring of biomimetic lipid membranes in a label-free and real-time fashion. Lipid membranes constitute the primary biological interface mediating cell signalin ...

American Chemical Society2016

Spin-resolved photoemission study of epitaxially grown MoSe2 and WSe2 thin films

Yi Zhang, Jan Hugo Dil, Stefan Peter Muff, Mauro Fanciulli, Zahid Hussain

Few-layer thick MoSe2 and WSe2 possess non-trivial spin textures with sizable spin splitting due to the inversion symmetry breaking embedded in the crystal structure and strong spin-orbit coupling. We report a spin-resolved photoemission study of MoSe2 and ...

Institute of Physics2016

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