Publications
Publications of the group in soft matter, biomaterials, nanoparticles, polymers, polyelectrolytes, drug delivery, lipid bilayers and membranes
Microplastics destabilize lipid membranes by mechanical stretching
PNAS 118 (31), e2104610118 (2021) Jean-Baptiste Fleury, Vladimir A. Baulin Estimated millions of tons of plastic are dumped annually into oceans. Plastic has been produced only for 70 y, but the exp...
Antibacterial Action of Nanoparticles by Lethal Stretching of Bacterial Cell Membranes
Adv. Mat. 32 (52), 2005679 (2020) Denver P. Linklater, Vladimir A. Baulin, Xavier Le Guével, Jean‐Baptiste Fleury, Eric Hanssen, The Hong Phong Nguyen, Saulius Juodkazis, Gary Bryant, Russell J. Crawf...
Unexpected Cholesterol-Induced Destabilization of Lipid Membranes near Transmembrane Carbon Nanotubes
Phys. Rev. Lett. 124(3), 038001 (2020) Yachong Guo, Marco Werner, Jean Baptiste Fleury and Vladimir A. Baulin Cholesterol is a crucial component of mammalian cell membranes that takes part in many vi...
Simulations of Protein Adsorption on Nanostructured Surfaces
Scientific Reports, 9, 4694 (2019) Berardo M. Manzi, Marco Werner, Elena P. Ivanova, Russell J. Crawford and Vladimir A. Baulin Recent technological advances have allowed the development of a new gene...
The Interaction of Giant Unilamellar Vesicles (GUVs) with the Surface Nanostructures on Dragonfly Wings
Langmuir, January (2019) S. Cheeseman, Vi Khanh Truong, V. Walter, F. Thalmann, C. M. Marques, Eric Hanssen, J. Vongsvivut, M. Tobin, V. A. Baulin, S. Juodkazis, S. MacLaughlin, G. Bryant, R. J. Crawf...
High-Throughput 3D Visualization of Nanoparticles attached to the Surface of Red Blood Cells
Nanoscale, December (2018) André Dias, Marco Werner, Kevin Ward, Jean-Baptiste Fleury, Vladimir A. Baulin Blood circulation is the main distribution route for systemic delivery and the possibility to ...
Tension-Induced Translocation of Ultra-Short Carbon Nanotube through a Phospholipid Bilayer
ACS Nano, November (2018) Yachong Guo, Marco Werner, Ralf Seemann, Vladimir A Baulin, and Jean-Baptiste Fleury Increasing awareness of bioeffects and toxicity of nanomaterials interacting with cells p...
Kinetic evolution of DOPC lipid bilayers exposed to α-cyclodextrins
Soft Matter, , (2018) Monika Kluzek, Marc Schmutz, Carlos M. Marques and Fabrice Thalmann Cyclodextrins are cyclic oligosaccharides capable of forming inclusion complexes with a variety of molecules, ...
Bridging molecular simulation models and elastic theories for amphiphilic membranes
J. Chem. Phys., 149, 014902 (2018) Adrien Berthault, Marco Werner, Vladimir A. Baulin The Single Chain Mean Field theory is used to link coarse-grained models of amphiphilic molecules with analytical ...