Motility – Chemotaxis
Motility – Marangoni Flow
Fusion
Contractility

Selected Publications

  • M.E. Allen, Y. Sun, C.L. Chan, Miguel Peaz-Perez, O. Ces, Y. Elani, C.Contini. Thermally driven dynamic behaviours in polymeric vesicles, Small, 2025, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/smll.202411220
  • M.E. Allen, Y. Sun, C.L. Chan, O. Ces, Y. Elani, C.Contini. Thermally driven dynamic behaviours in polymeric vesicles, ChemRxiv, 2024, 10.26434/chemrxiv-2024-j2dtm.
  • M.E. Allen, J.W. Hindley, N. O’Toole, H.S. Cooke, C. Contini, R.V. Law, O. Ces, Y. Elani, Biomimetic behaviours in hydrogel artificial cells through embedded organelles. PNAS, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2307772120.
  • S. Zhang, C. Contini, J.W. Hindley, G. Bolognesi, Y. Elani, O. Ces Engineering motile aqueous phase separated droplets via liposome stabilisation. Nature Communications, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21832-x.
  • Joseph, C. Contini, D. Cecchin, S. Nyberg, L. Ruiz-Perez, J. Gaitzsch, G. Fullstone, J. Azizi, J. Preston, G. Volpe and G. Battaglia. Chemotactic synthetic vesicles: Design and applications in blood-brain barrier crossing. Science Advances, 2017, 3 (8), e1700362 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1700362.