Mastering energy landscapes via liquid liquid phase separation to program active supramolecular coassembly from the nano to macro scale

Fuente: arXiv
Gespeichert in:
Bibliographische Detailangaben
Hauptverfasser: Wu, Yuanhao, van Teijlingen, Alexander, Watts, Julie, Yu, Zhiquan, Su, Shanshan, RodriguezCabello, Jose Carlos, Abramovich, Lihi, Tuttle, Tell, Mata, Alvaro
Format: Preprint
Veröffentlicht: 2025
Schlagworte:
Online-Zugang:
Tags: Tag hinzufügen
Keine Tags, Fügen Sie den ersten Tag hinzu!
_version_ 1866911234376335360
author Wu, Yuanhao
van Teijlingen, Alexander
Watts, Julie
Yu, Zhiquan
Su, Shanshan
RodriguezCabello, Jose Carlos
Abramovich, Lihi
Tuttle, Tell
Mata, Alvaro
author_facet Wu, Yuanhao
van Teijlingen, Alexander
Watts, Julie
Yu, Zhiquan
Su, Shanshan
RodriguezCabello, Jose Carlos
Abramovich, Lihi
Tuttle, Tell
Mata, Alvaro
contents The energy landscape dictates pathways and outcomes in supramolecular selfassembly, yet harnessing it from the nano to the macro scales remains a major challenge. Here, we demonstrate liquid liquid phase separation (LLPS) as a powerful tool to navigate and engineer the energy landscapes of coassembly systems comprising disordered proteins and peptides. We quantitatively map the energy barriers and transition states governing structural transitions, enabling predictive on off control of assembly and hierarchical order from nano to macro scales. By integrating supramolecular biofabrication, we achieve spatially organized architectures with life like non equilibrium behaviour. Crucially, assembly stability and scalable selfsorting are shown to depend on accessing minimum energy states, regardless of whether the co assembled structures are disordered or ordered. This work establishes energy landscape mediation via LLPS as a general framework for designing lifelike, hierarchically structured materials.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2510_23017
institution arXiv
publishDate 2025
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Mastering energy landscapes via liquid liquid phase separation to program active supramolecular coassembly from the nano to macro scale
Wu, Yuanhao
van Teijlingen, Alexander
Watts, Julie
Yu, Zhiquan
Su, Shanshan
RodriguezCabello, Jose Carlos
Abramovich, Lihi
Tuttle, Tell
Mata, Alvaro
Soft Condensed Matter
Materials Science
Chemical Physics
The energy landscape dictates pathways and outcomes in supramolecular selfassembly, yet harnessing it from the nano to the macro scales remains a major challenge. Here, we demonstrate liquid liquid phase separation (LLPS) as a powerful tool to navigate and engineer the energy landscapes of coassembly systems comprising disordered proteins and peptides. We quantitatively map the energy barriers and transition states governing structural transitions, enabling predictive on off control of assembly and hierarchical order from nano to macro scales. By integrating supramolecular biofabrication, we achieve spatially organized architectures with life like non equilibrium behaviour. Crucially, assembly stability and scalable selfsorting are shown to depend on accessing minimum energy states, regardless of whether the co assembled structures are disordered or ordered. This work establishes energy landscape mediation via LLPS as a general framework for designing lifelike, hierarchically structured materials.
title Mastering energy landscapes via liquid liquid phase separation to program active supramolecular coassembly from the nano to macro scale
topic Soft Condensed Matter
Materials Science
Chemical Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.23017