The structure, dynamics and function of lipid vesicles are heavily influenced by a range of
physical forces, local microenvironmental effects and interactions with perturbative …

Lipid membrane fusion is a fundamental noncovalent transformation as well as a central
process in biology. The complex and highly controlled biological machinery of fusion has …

The solubilization of membranes by detergents is critical for many technological applications
and has become widely used in biochemistry research to induce cell rupture, extract cell …

Drug delivery systems based on liposome carriers that are designed for induction of
membrane fusion in response to the microenvironment have been investigated for more …

Lipid vesicles are valuable mesoscale molecular confinement vessels for studying
membrane mechanics and lipid-protein interactions, and they have found utility among bio …

We show that a coordinated interplay between mesoscale colloidal interactions and
molecular-scale membrane perturbations affords a novel material platform to controllably …

Cellular plasma membranes are central to molecular transport and signaling. Traditional
models, reliant on lipid mixing and content release techniques, provide limited clarity on the …

Membrane fusion is a ubiquitous process in biology and potentially an alternative to
endocytic internalization pathways in drug delivery. Due to its high complexity, assays have …

The interaction of nanoscale lipid vesicles with cell membranes is of fundamental
importance for the design and development of vesicular drug delivery systems. Here, we …

Amphiphilic monolayer-protected gold nanoparticles (NPs) have recently been shown to
spontaneously fuse with lipid bilayers under typical physiological conditions. The final …