title: Self-beating artificial cells: design of cross-linked polymersomes showing self-oscillating motion.
abstract: Biomimetic cross-linked polymersomes that exhibit a self-beating motion without any on-off switching are developed. The polymersomes are made from a well-defined synthetic thermoresponsive diblock copolymer, and the thermoresponsive segment includes ruthenium catalysts for the oscillatory chemical reaction and vinylidene groups to cross-link the polymersomes. Autonomous volume and shape oscillations of the cross-linked polymersomes are realized following redox changes of the catalysts.
authors.affiliation: Department of Materials Engineering, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8656, Japan.
authors.forename: Ryota
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Tamate
authors.forename: Takeshi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ueki
authors.forename: Ryo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Yoshida
keywords: artificial cell; biomimetics; block copolymer; polymersome; self-oscillation