Issue 13, 2021
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Chemical Communications

Cascade communication in disordered networks of enzyme-loaded microdroplets†

Marko Pavlovic,a   Markus Antonietti ORCID logo a  and  Lukas Zeininger ORCID logo *a  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Colloid Chemistry, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Am Muehlenberg 1, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
E-mail: lukas.zeininger@mpikg.mpg.de

Abstract

A network of aqueous emulsion droplets that exhibits programmed and directional chemical inter-droplet communication is described. A non-reciprocal transfer of substrates between enzyme-containing aqueous emulsion droplets is realized by (biochemically) induced osmolarity gradients and concomitant concentration gradients are used to direct a multistep enzymatic cascade reaction across multiple droplets.

Graphical abstract: Cascade communication in disordered networks of enzyme-loaded microdroplets

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/D0CC08310K
Article type
Communication
Submitted
22 Dec 2020
Accepted
11 Jan 2021
First published
11 Jan 2021
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

Chem. Commun., 2021,57, 1631-1634

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Cascade communication in disordered networks of enzyme-loaded microdroplets

M. Pavlovic, M. Antonietti and L. Zeininger, Chem. Commun., 2021, 57, 1631 DOI: 10.1039/D0CC08310K

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