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Deciphering how primitive, inanimate matter organized into living systems is a central challenge in origins of life research. In this context, protocells—primitive cell-like compartments—are widely considered as plausible intermediates linking nonliving chemistry with early biological systems. Among various protocell…
Stella Afroditi Mountaki, Maria Kaliva, Konstantinos Loukelis, Maria Chatzinikolaidou + 2 more
'Maria Chatzinikolaidou' 'Maria Vamvakaki' 'Rafael Antonio Balart Gimeno'] Main chain polyesters have been extensively used in the biomedical field. Despite their many advantages, including biocompatibility, biodegradability, and others, these materials are rather inert and lack specific functionalities which will…
Manesh Prakash Joshi, Jessica Lee, Maxfield Chan, Christine D. Keating
Coacervate droplets and lipid vesicles are two classes of self-assembled compartments that have been proposed as protocell models. Hybrid protocells, in which a coacervate core is surrounded by a lipid membrane, can integrate the advantages of both protocell systems while overcoming their limitations. Although hybrid…
Devin G. Barrett, Muhammad N. Yousaf
Synthetic polyesters have deeply impacted various biomedical and engineering fields, such as tissue scaffolding and therapeutic delivery. Currently, many applications involving polyesters are being explored with polymers derived from monomers that are endogenous to the human metabolism. Examples of these monomers…
Han Sol Kim, Emily Fan, Arthi Chandra, Evangeline Meyler + 4 more
Thermoplastic polyesters are widely used in commodity and high-performance applications due to their tunable and exceptional properties, versatile performance, and increasing relevance in sustainable materials. Integrating biological functionality into these polymers offers a promising route to enhance performance and…
Monika Wenisch, Marius G. Braun, Lukas Eylert, Fabian Späth + 4 more
Complex coacervation occurs when oppositely charged polyelectrolytes interact, leading to liquid-liquid phase separation. We coupled this phase separation to a fuel-driven reaction cycle, leading to active droplets that emerge when fuel is supplied and dissolve when the energy source is depleted. These behaviors make…
Yazhong Bu, Junxuan Ma, Jianzhong Bei, Shenguo Wang
Aliphatic polyester is a kind of biodegradable implantable polymers, which shows promise as scaffolds in tissue engineering, drug carrier, medical device, and so on. To further improve its biocompatibility and cell affinity, many techniques have been used to modify the surface of the polyester. In the present paper…
Ian von Hegner
This article provides a specific example of recombinant cell and protocell technology, moving from what is presently known to suggesting how novel application of existing methodologies could be utilized to design a complex synthetic system in form of a self-sufficient light empowered protocell. A practical application…
Raluca Nicoleta Darie-Niță, Maria Râpă, Stanisław Frąckowiak, Dimitrios Bikiaris
'Dimitrios Bikiaris'] This article presents current possibilities of using polyester-based materials in hard and soft tissue engineering, wound dressings, surgical implants, vascular reconstructive surgery, ophthalmology, and other medical applications. The review summarizes the recent literature on the key features of…
Han Sol Kim, Myung Hyun Noh, Evan M. White, Michael V. Kandefer + 8 more
The field of engineered living materials (ELMs) seeks to pair living organisms with synthetic materials to generate biocomposite materials with augmented function since living systems can provide highly-programmable and complex behavior. ELMs have typically been fabricated using techniques in benign aqueous…
Kening Lang, Regina J. Sánchez-Leija, Richard A. Gross, Robert J. Linhardt
'Robert J. Linhardt'] Bio-based polyol polyesters are biodegradable elastomers having potential utility in soft tissue engineering. This class of polymers can serve a wide range of biomedical applications. Materials based on these polymers are inherently susceptible to degradation during the period of implantation.…
Alberto Contreras-Moll, Theo Obrador-Viel, Rocío Daniela Inés Molina, Maria del Mar Aguiló-Ferretjans + 3 more
Biodegradable plastics, primarily aliphatic polyesters, degrade to varying extents in different environments. However, the absence of easily implementable techniques for screening microbial biodegradation potential —coupled with the limitations of non-functional omics analyses— has restricted comparative studies across…
Evandro Piccin, Davide Ferraro, P. Sartori, Enrico Chiarello + 2 more
'Matteo Pierno' 'Giampaolo Mistura'] This paper demonstrates that disposable polyester-toner microfluidic devices are suitable to produce either water-in-oil (W/O) or oil-in-water (O/W) droplets without using any surface treatment of the microchannels walls. Highly monodisperse W/O and O/W emulsions were generated in…
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The potential of three thermophilic enzymes from the α,β-hydrolases superfamily, that have recently been described for polyester hydrolysis, was investigated for polyester synthesis, esterification and transesterification reactions. The hydrolases (LCC, leaf-branch compost cutinase; its variant LCCICCG, Thb from…
Amy Contreras, Michael J. Raxworthy, Simon Wood, Jessica D. Schiffman + 1 more
'Jessica D. Schiffman' 'Giuseppe Tronci'] Antimicrobial biomaterials are critical to aid in the regeneration of oral soft tissue and prevent or treat localised bacterial infections. With the rising trend in antibiotic resistance, there is a pressing clinical need for new antimicrobial chemistries and biomaterial design…
Moein Zarei, Marek J. Żwir, Ewa Wiśniewska, Beata Michalkiewicz + 1 more
In this study, the synthesis and physico-chemical properties of poly(butylene succinate-dilinoleic succinate) (PBS-DLS) copolymers modified with hydrophilic poly(ethylene glycol)(PEG) differing in segmental composition are discussed in order to determine their structure-properties relationship and translate it to their…
Moein Zarei, Beata Michalkiewicz, Miroslawa El Fray
In this study, the synthesis and physico-chemical properties of sustainable poly(butylene succinatedilinoleic succinate) (PBS-DLS) copolymers modified with hydrophilic poly(ethylene glycol)(PEG) are discussed in context of structure-properties relationship of polymeric materials and their processibility. The copolymers…
Ivana Čorak, Anita Tarbuk, Tihana Dekanić, Dominik Sikorski + 2 more
'Zbigniew Draczyński' 'Philippe Evon'] In the interests of using green and sustainable chemical innovations to create sustainable products with minimized (or no) chemical hazard potential, the polyester fabric in this work was activated and functionalized with chitosan and its durability was investigated. Chitosan is a…
Yeonjo Jung
The endpoints related to survival and growth in D. magna were not affected in the range of different concentrations of both tested compounds. After 24 hours of exposure to TEG and polyester, the number of D. magna was not reduced. I observed that the higher polyester concentrations adversely affected the population of…
Moein Zarei, Beata Michalkiewicz, Miroslawa El Fray
In this study, the synthesis and physico-chemical properties of bio-based poly(butylene succinatedilinoleic succinate)(PBS-DLS) modified with poly(ethylene glycol)(PEG) differing in segmental composition of respective units (PBS-DLS-PEG) are discussed in order to determine their structureproperties relationship and…