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International multidisciplinary team working in soft matter, drug delivery, bio-nanotechnology fields. We aim to understand the interactions of membranes with nano-obiects including nanoparticles, nanotubes, polymers, polymeric micelles and polymer therapeutic complexes conjugates.

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High Aspect Ratio Nanostructures Kill Bacteria via Storage and Release of Mechanical Energy

ACS Nano, 114(9), 2165–2173 (2018) Denver P. Linklater, Michael De Volder, Vladimir A Baulin, Marco Werner, Sarah Jessl, Mehdi Golozar, Laura Maggini, Sergey Ru...

Structure and Chemical Organization in Damselfly Calopteryx haemorrhoidalis Wings: A Spatially Resolved FTIR and XRF Analysis with Synchrotron Radiation

Scientific Reports, 8, 8413 (2018) Susan Stuhr, Vi Khanh Truong, Jitraporn Vongsvivut, Tobias Senkbeil, Yang Yang, Mohammad Al Kobaisi, Vladimir A. Baulin, Marc...

Antioxidant modified amphiphilic polymer improves intracellular cryoprotectant delivery and alleviates oxidative stress in HeLa cells

Adv Mater Sci, DOI: 10.15761/AMS.1000131 (2017) Alexander Chen, Sergio A Mercado, Nigel KH Slater The design and synthesis of a dual-function, cell permeating p...

DPPC Bilayers in Solutions of High Sucrose Content

Biophysical J, 114(9), 2165–2173 (2018) Mattia I. Morandi, Mathieu Sommer, Monika Kluzek, Fabrice Thalmann, André P. Schroder, Carlos M. Marques The properties ...

Mechano-bactericidal mechanism of graphene nanomaterials

Interface Focus, 8, 20170060, (2018) Denver P. Linklater, Vladimir A. Baulin, Saulius Juodkazis and Elena P. Ivanova Growing interest in the bactericidal effect...

Study of melanin localization in the mature male Calopteryx haemorrhoidalis damselfly wings

J. Synchrotron Rad. 25, 874-877 (2018) Vi Khanh Truong, Jitraporn Vongsvivut, Nipuni Mahanamanam Geeganagamage, Mark J. Tobin, Pere Luque, Vladimir A. Baulin, M...

Pheochromocytoma (PC12) Cell Response on Mechanobactericidal Titanium Surfaces

Materials 2018, 11(4), 605 (2018); https://doi.org/10.3390/ma11040605 Jason V. Wandiyanto, Denver Linklater, Pallale G. Tharushi Perera, Anna Orlowska, Vi Khanh...

Nanomaterial interactions with biomembranes: Bridging the gap between soft matter models and biological context

Biointerphases 13, 028501 (2018); https://doi.org/10.1116/1.5022145 M. Werner, T. Auth, P. A. Beales, J. B. Fleury, F. Höök, H. Kress, R. C. Van Lehn, M. Müller...

Formation and Stabilization of Pores in Bilayer Membranes by Peptide-like Amphiphilic Polymers

Soft matter, 2018, DOI: 10.1039/C7SM02404E, Ankush Checkervarty, Marco Werner, and Jens Uwe Sommer We study pore formation in models of lipid-bilayer membranes ...

Research topics

Interaction of peptides and proteins with membranes

Cell membranes represent a serious protective barrier for external molecules, proteins, nanoparticles and drugs. This barrier is quite efficient in protecting t...

Self-assembly of interpolyelectrolyte complexes and their interaction with lipid membranes

 Electrostatic interactions are instrumental in determining the structure and function of living organisms, biopolymers and drug delivery systems. Charged macro...

Translocation of nanoparticles, carbon nanotubes and polymers through bilayers

Cell membranes represent a serious protective barrier for external molecules, proteins, nanoparticles and drugs. This barrier is quite efficient in protecting t...

Polymer micelles as drug carriers

Block copolymer micelles are composed of polymer chains with sequences of hydrophilic and hydrophobic blocks. In a dilute aqueous solution, they form spherical ...

Permeability of lipid bilayers induced by polymers

Lipid bilayers emerge by self-organization of amphiphilic molecules and are the essential component of membranes of living cells. An important task of them is t...

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