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ArticleNature2021

Transmembrane transport in inorganic colloidal cell-mimics.

Zhe Xu, Theodore Hueckel, William T M Irvine, Stefano Sacanna

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Article in Nature, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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24citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

24 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Morphogenic colloids.Nature communications · 2026
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  3. Let There be Light! Light as an Engine and Regulator in Synthetic Cells.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2026
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  5. Topology and kinetic pathways of colloidosome assembly and disassembly.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  15. Light-Triggered Inflation of Microdroplets.Chemistry of materials : a publication of the American Chemical Society · 2024
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  16. Progress in the Synthesis of Colloidal Machines.Accounts of materials research · 2024
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  17. Colloidal robotics.Nature materials · 2023
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  19. Autonomic Integration in Nested Protocell Communities.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Zhe XuMolecular Design Institute, Department of Chemistry, New York University, New York, NY, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8599-079X
Theodore HueckelMolecular Design Institute, Department of Chemistry, New York University, New York, NY, USA.
William T M IrvineJames Franck Institute, Enrico Fermi Institute, Department of Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA. wtmirvine@uchicago.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4925-2060
Stefano SacannaMolecular Design Institute, Department of Chemistry, New York University, New York, NY, USA. s.sacanna@nyu.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8399-3524

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A key aspect of living cells is their ability to harvest energy from the environment and use it to pump specific atomic and molecular species in and out of their system-typically against an unfavourable concentration gradient

Indexed as

BiomimeticsBiological Transport, ActiveBiomimetic MaterialsCell MembraneColloidsEmulsionsEntropyHydrogen-Ion ConcentrationLightColloidsEmulsions

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