@article{MehrGrigorievHeatonetal.2020,
  author    = {Mehr, Fatemeh Naderi and Grigoriev, Dmitry and Heaton, Rebecca and Baptiste, Joshua and Stace, Anthony J. and Puretskiy, Nikolay and Besley, Elena and B{\"o}ker, Alexander},
  title     = {Self-assembly behavior of oppositely charged inverse bipatchy microcolloids},
  series = {Small : nano micro},
  volume    = {16},
  journal   = {Small : nano micro},
  number    = {14},
  publisher = {Wiley-VCH},
  address   = {Weinheim},
  issn      = {1613-6810},
  doi       = {10.1002/smll.202000442},
  pages     = {9},
  year      = {2020},
  abstract  = {A directed attractive interaction between predefined "patchy" sites on the surfaces of anisotropic microcolloids can provide them with the ability to self-assemble in a controlled manner to build target structures of increased complexity. An important step toward the controlled formation of a desired superstructure is to identify reversible electrostatic interactions between patches which allow them to align with one another. The formation of bipatchy particles with two oppositely charged patches fabricated using sandwich microcontact printing is reported. These particles spontaneously self-aggregate in solution, where a diversity of short and long chains of bipatchy particles with different shapes, such as branched, bent, and linear, are formed. Calculations show that chain formation is driven by a combination of attractive electrostatic interactions between oppositely charged patches and the charge-induced polarization of interacting particles.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{KochovskiChenYuanetal.2020,
  author    = {Kochovski, Zdravko and Chen, Guosong and Yuan, Jiayin and Lu, Yan},
  title     = {Cryo-Electron microscopy for the study of self-assembled poly(ionic liquid) nanoparticles and protein supramolecular structures},
  series = {Colloid and polymer science : official journal of the Kolloid-Gesellschaft},
  volume    = {298},
  journal   = {Colloid and polymer science : official journal of the Kolloid-Gesellschaft},
  number    = {7},
  publisher = {Springer},
  address   = {New York},
  issn      = {0303-402X},
  doi       = {10.1007/s00396-020-04657-w},
  pages     = {707 -- 717},
  year      = {2020},
  abstract  = {Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is a powerful structure determination technique that is well-suited to the study of protein and polymer self-assembly in solution. In contrast to conventional transmission electron microscopy (TEM) sample preparation, which often times involves drying and staining, the frozen-hydrated sample preparation allows the specimens to be kept and imaged in a state closest to their native one. Here, we give a short overview of the basic principles of Cryo-EM and review our results on applying it to the study of different protein and polymer self-assembled nanostructures. More specifically, we show how we have applied cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) to visualize the internal morphology of self-assembled poly(ionic liquid) nanoparticles and cryo-EM single particle analysis (SPA) to determine the three-dimensional (3D) structures of artificial protein microtubules.},
  language  = {en}
}