ERC Starting Grant · 2025
Harnessing Ostwald Ripening for Dynamic Emulsions
Controlling the exchange of material between organs, cells and organelles is essential for all of the processes essential to life, such as signalling, metabolism and reproduction. Chemicals pass between compartments by diffusion, which is often assisted or rectified by biological machinery. A central goal of Systems Chemistry is to produce networks of discrete synthetic compartments that interact with the same complexity seen in life. Key to achieving this is the ability to control and regulate diffusion. The HORDE programme will harness Ostwald ripening as a tool that will enable controlled diffusion within emulsions. Ostwald ripening is the net directional diffusion of molecules from less…
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