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ArticleNature chemistry2025

Universal membranization of synthetic coacervates and biomolecular condensates towards ultrastability and spontaneous emulsification.

Da Tang, Jun Zhu, Hao Wang, Nannan Chen, Hui Wang, Yongqi Huang, Lingxiang Jiang

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Article in Nature chemistry, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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7 authors.

Da TangSouth China Advanced Institute for Soft Matter Science and Technology (AISMST), State Key Laboratory of Pulp and Paper Engineering, School of Emergent Soft Matter, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0001-6686-574X
Jun ZhuSouth China Advanced Institute for Soft Matter Science and Technology (AISMST), State Key Laboratory of Pulp and Paper Engineering, School of Emergent Soft Matter, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8672-1540
Hao WangSouth China Advanced Institute for Soft Matter Science and Technology (AISMST), State Key Laboratory of Pulp and Paper Engineering, School of Emergent Soft Matter, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China.
Nannan ChenDepartment of Nutrition and Food Hygiene, School of Public Health, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China.
Hui WangSouth China Advanced Institute for Soft Matter Science and Technology (AISMST), State Key Laboratory of Pulp and Paper Engineering, School of Emergent Soft Matter, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China.
Yongqi HuangCooperative Innovation Center of Industrial Fermentation (Ministry of Education and Hubei Province), Key Laboratory of Industrial Fermentation (Ministry of Education), Hubei Key Laboratory of Industrial Microbiology, Hubei University of Technology, Wuhan, China.
Lingxiang JiangSouth China Advanced Institute for Soft Matter Science and Technology (AISMST), State Key Laboratory of Pulp and Paper Engineering, School of Emergent Soft Matter, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China. jianglx@scut.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5848-3904

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 22122201
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Membranization of membraneless coacervates and condensates is emerging as a promising strategy to resolve their inherent susceptibility to fusion, ripening and environmental variations. Yet current membranization agents by design are largely limited to a subclass or a specific kind of coacervate or condensate systems. Here we develop a library of condensate-amphiphilic block polymers that can efficiently form a polymeric layer on the droplet interface for a wide spectrum of synthetic coacervates and biomolecular condensates. Condensate-amphiphilic block polymers are designed with a condenophilic block firmly anchored to the condensed phase, a condenophobic block extended to the dilute phase and a self-association block to promote membrane formation. Critical to our design is the condenophilic block of phenylboronic acid and amidoamine that target the disparate chemistry of condensed droplets via multivalent affinities. The condensate-amphiphilic block polymer membranes render the droplets mechanically robust against fusion, regulate interfacial properties such as permeability and stiffness, and substantially improve droplet tolerance to challenging conditions of temperature, salinity, pH and organic solvents.

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