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Artificial Cells & Active Soft Matter
Artificial Cells & Active Soft Matter
Cells are soft matter that comes alive, but how the transition from nonliving to living matter occurs remains unknown. We are trying to build a simplified living cell from non-living components such as phospholipids, DNA, RNA, and artificial molecular machines. This bottom-up approach to synthetic cells can help us understand how the cell works and will create next-generation biotechnologies valuable to human health, environment, energy, and industry.
Cells are soft matter that comes alive, but how the transition from nonliving to living matter occurs remains unknown. We are trying to build a simplified living cell from non-living components such as phospholipids, DNA, RNA, and artificial molecular machines. This bottom-up approach to synthetic cells can help us understand how the cell works and will create next-generation biotechnologies valuable to human health, environment, energy, and industry.
News
2025.07
Congratulations to Zhen-Hong on the accepted paper in JACS!
https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5c09950
Congratulations to Umar on the accepted review paper in Adv. Mater.!
https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202508047
Congratulations on the accepted paper in Nat. Commun. (in collaboration with Prof. Lifei Zheng, Wenzhou Institute, UCAS)!
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-61340-w
2025.04.09
Congratulations to Qi-Hong on the accepted paper in Nature Materials! https://www.nature.com/articles/s41563-025-02202-0
Free access: https://rdcu.be/eg1x9
2025.02.12
Congratulations to Yao-Yao on the accepted paper in Science Advances!
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ads1065
2024.07.04
Congratulations to Jia-Qi on the recently accepted paper in Nature Chemical Engineering! https://www.nature.com/articles/s44286-024-00088-4
free PDF access link: https://rdcu.be/dMKyA
We are now recruiting international PhD students and postdocs.
If you are interested, please email your CV and statement of research interests to n.deng@sjtu.edu.cn
Microfluidic preparation of double emulsions with ATPS inside
Dewetting of W/O/W double emulsion droplet to form liposome
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