Billions of years of evolution have made modern cells incredibly complex. Inside cells are small compartments called ...

Understanding the fundamentals of designing polyelectrolyte coatings, which can be seen as a bio-inspired approach due to chemical sequences that are analogous to proteins at a molecular level, ...

With exposure to intense heat, ultraviolet light, electrical storms, and other conditions, organic molecules conbined to form membrane-bound droplets call coacervates. These may have been the ...

In physics, a system composed of two substances can be modeled in accordance with classical mixture theory, which considers ...

Classical mixture theory, which takes into account the percentage corresponding to each constituent as well as the ...

Proteases are enzymes that catalyse hydrolysis of the peptide and isopeptide bonds that join amino acids within proteins (known as proteolysis). Proteases can also remove protein post ...

Transferring coacervates based on polydiallyldimethylammonium chloride and adenosine triphosphate into deionized water has been experimentally demonstrated to stabilize them against coalescence.

Scientists propose that two distinct models of protocells – vesicles and coacervates – may have played a pivotal role in the early stages of life. Vesicles are tiny bubbles, like soap in water.