Publications

Publications in soft matter

Nanoparticles of Various Degrees of Hydrophobicity Interacting with Lipid Membranes

J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 8, 4069–4076 (2017). Chan-Fei Su, Holger Merlitz, Hauke Rabbel, and Jens-Uwe Sommer Using coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations, we study the passive translocation of

In vivo cellular reactions to different biomaterials—Physiological and pathological aspects and their consequences

Seminars in Immunology, DOI: 10.1016/j.smim.2017.06.001 (2017). Sarah Al-Maawi, Anna Orlowska, Robert Sader, C. James Kirkpatrick, Shahram Ghanaati Biomaterials are widely used in guided bone

Apatite nanoparticles strongly improve red blood cell cryopreservation by mediating trehalose delivery via enhanced membrane permeation

Biomaterials, 140, 138-149 (2017). Martin Stefanic, Kevin Ward, Harvey Tawfik, Ralf Seemann, Vladimir Baulin, Yachong Guo, Jean-Baptiste Fleury, Christophe Drouet Cryopreservation of red blood cells

Implications of lipid monolayer charge characteristics on their selective interactions with a short antimicrobial peptide

Colloids and Surfaces B, 150, 308–316 (2017). Daniela Ciumac, Richard A. Campbell, Hai Xu, Luke A. Clifton, Arwel V. Hughes, John R.P. Webster, Jian R. Lu Many antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) target

pH-Responsive, Lysine-Based, Hyperbranched Polymers Mimicking Endosomolytic Cell-Penetrating Peptides for Efficient Intracellular Delivery

Chem. Mater., DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.7b00054 (2017). Shiqi Wang and Rongjun Chen The insufficient delivery of biomacromolecular therapeutic agents into the cytoplasm of mammalian cells remains a

GPU implementation of the Rosenbluth generation method for static Monte Carlo simulations

Computer Physics Communications, 216, 95–101(2017). Yachong Guo, Vladimir A. Baulin We present parallel version of Rosenbluth Self-Avoiding Walk generation method implemented on Graphics Processing

The susceptibility of Staphylococcus aureus CIP 65.8 and Pseudomonas aeruginosa ATCC 9721 cells to the bactericidal action of nanostructured Calopteryx haemorrhoidalis damselfly wing surfaces

Appl Microbiol Biotechnol (2017). doi:10.1007/s00253-017-8205-9 Vi Khanh Truong, Nipuni Mahanamanam Geeganagamage, Vladimir A. Baulin, Jitraporn Vongsvivut, Mark J. Tobin, Pere Luque, Russell J

Dynamic studies of the interaction of a pH responsive, amphiphilic polymer with a DOPC lipid membrane

Soft Matter, 13, 3690-3700 (2017) Sivaramakrishnan Ramadurai, Marco Werner, Nigel K.H. Slater, Aaron Martin, Vladimir A. Baulin, Tia Keyes Deeper understanding of the molecular interactions between

Membrane-Anchoring, Comb-Like Pseudopeptides for Efficient, pH-Mediated Membrane Destabilization and Intracellular Delivery

ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, Article ASAP (2017) Siyuan Chen, Shiqi Wang, Michal Kopytynski, Marie Bachelet, and Rongjun Chen Endosomal release has been identified as a rate-limiting step for