Light-Gated Synthetic Protocells for Plasmon-Enhanced Chemiosmotic Gradient Generation and ATP Synthesis

Supramolecular Assembly of Photosystem II and Adenosine Triphosphate Synthase in Artificially Designed Honeycomb Multilayers for Photophosphorylation

(2018) Yue Li et al.   ACS Nano

Synthetic beta cells for fusion-mediated dynamic insulin secretion

(2017) Zhaowei Chen et al.   Nature Chemical Biology

Phagocytosis-inspired behaviour in synthetic protocell communities of compartmentalized colloidal objects

(2017) Laura Rodríguez-Arco et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

pH-sensitive vibrational probe reveals a cytoplasmic protonated cluster in bacteriorhodopsin

(2017) Victor A. Lorenz-Fonfria et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Chemical Signaling and Functional Activation in Colloidosome-Based Protocells

(2016) Shiyong Sun et al.   Small

Individual Surface-Engineered Microorganisms as Robust Pickering Interfacial Biocatalysts for Resistance-Minimized Phase-Transfer Bioconversion

(2015) Zhaowei Chen et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Plasmonic Colloidosomes as Three-Dimensional SERS Platforms with Enhanced Surface Area for Multiphase Sub-Microliter Toxin Sensing

(2015) Gia Chuong Phan-Quang et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Black Gold: Plasmonic Colloidosomes with Broadband Absorption Self-Assembled from Monodispersed Gold Nanospheres by Using a Reverse Emulsion System

(2015) Dilong Liu et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Multifunctional Porous Microspheres Based on Peptide-Porphyrin Hierarchical Co-Assembly

(2014) Qianli Zou et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Synthetic cellularity based on non-lipid micro-compartments and protocell models

(2014) Mei Li et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN CHEMICAL BIOLOGY

Light Controlled Reversible Inversion of Nanophosphor-Stabilized Pickering Emulsions for Biphasic Enantioselective Biocatalysis

(2014) Zhaowei Chen et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Spontaneous Growth and Division in Self-Reproducing Inorganic Colloidosomes

(2014) Mei Li et al.   Small

High-Performance Bioassisted Nanophotocatalyst for Hydrogen Production

(2013) Shankar Balasubramanian et al.   NANO LETTERS

Chemical mapping of a single molecule by plasmon-enhanced Raman scattering

(2013) R. Zhang et al.   NATURE

Electrostatically gated membrane permeability in inorganic protocells

(2013) Mei Li et al.   Nature Chemistry

The Origin of Membrane Bioenergetics

(2012) Nick Lane et al.   CELL

The early evolution of lipid membranes and the three domains of life

(2012) Jonathan Lombard et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Metal Nanoparticle Plasmon-Enhanced Light-Harvesting in a Photosystem I Thin Film

(2011) Iltai Kim et al.   NANO LETTERS

In vitro gene expression and enzyme catalysis in bio-inorganic protocells

(2011) Mei Li et al.   Chemical Science

On the Mechanism of the Plasmonic Field Enhancement of the Solar-to-Electric Energy Conversion by the Other Photosynthetic System in Nature (Bacteriorhodopsin): Kinetic and Spectroscopic Study

(2010) Li-Kang Chu et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Plasmonic Field Enhancement of the Bacteriorhodopsin Photocurrent during Its Proton Pump Photocycle

(2010) Chun-Wan Yen et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

A Membrane-Reconstituted Multisubunit Functional Proton Pump on Mesoporous Silica Particles

(2009) Gustav Nordlund et al.   ACS Nano

Microcapsules Containing a Biomolecular Motor for ATP Biosynthesis

(2008) Qiang He et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Hydrothermal vents and the origin of life

(2008) William Martin et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY