Rui Sun

Silica Aerogel Microcompartments with On-Demand Reactivation Enable Mimicry of Natural Resurrection

Abstract Mimicking natural resurrection remains extraordinarily challenging. Herein, we report dormant aerogel-based synthetic microcompartments fabricated via a water-in-oil emulsion strategy to produce polyelectrolyte–surfactant complex membrane-coated mesoporous silica aerogel...

Signal-induced recruitment and dispatchment in reconfigurable phase-separated protocell networks

Abstract The construction of protocell networks with self-regulated spatial dynamics and functions is an important challenge in the emerging field of colloidal systems chemistry. Existing strategies predominantly produce protocell networks with fixed or randomly distributed spati...