Protocells & Polymersomes

Discher, B., Y.-Y. Won, D.S. Ege, J.C.-M. Lee, F.S. Bates, D.E. Discher and D.A. Hammer, “Polymersomes: tough vesicles made from block copolymers”, Science 284:1143-1146 (1999).

Kevin B. Vargo, Ranganath Parthasarathy and Daniel A. Hammer, (2012). “Tunable Protein Suprastructures from Recombinant Oleosin”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 109 (29) 11657-11662; dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1205426109.

Neha P. Kamat, Joshua S. Katz, and Daniel A. Hammer, (2011). “Engineering Polymersome Protocells”, Journal of Chemical Physics Letters 2:1612–1623. dx.doi.org/10.1021/jz200640x.

Neha P. Kamat, Zhengzheng Liao, Laurel E. Moses, Jeff Rawson, Michael J. Therien, Ivan J. Dmochowski, and Daniel A. Hammer, (2011). “Sensing membrane stress with near IR-emissive porphyrins”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 108 (34) 13984-13989; dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1102125108.

Joshua S. Katz, Katherine A. Eisenbrown, Eric D. Johnston, Neha P. Kamat, Jason A. Burdick and Daniel A. Hammer, (2012). “Soft Biodegradable Polymersomes from Caprolactone-Derived Polymers,” Soft Matter 8 (42), 10853 – 10862; dx.doi.org/10.1039/C2SM26275D.

Katz, J.S., Sheng Zhong, Brendon G. Ricart, Darrin J. Pochan, D.A. Hammer, and J.A. Burdick, (2010). “Modular synthesis of biodegradable block copolymers for designing functional polymersomes”, Journal of the American Chemical Society 132(11):3654-3655.

Virgil Percec, Daniela A. Wilson, Pawaret Leowanawat, Christopher Wilson, Andrew D. Hughes, Mark S. Kaucher, Daniel A. Hammer, Dalia H. Levine, Anthony J. Kim, Frank S. Bates, Kevin P. Davis, Timothy P. Lodge, Michael L. Klein, Russell DeVane, Emad Aqad, Brad M. Rosen, Andrea O. Argintaru, Monika J. Sienkowska, Kari Rissanen, Sami Nummelin & Jarmo Ropponen,Self-Assembly of Janus-Dendrimers into Monodisperse Dendrimersomes and other Complex Architectures,” (2010) Science 328:1009-1014; dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1185547.

Robbins, G.P., M. Jimbo, Joe Swift, Michael J. Therien, Daniel A. Hammer, Ivan J. Dmochowski, (2009) “Photo-initiated destruction of composite porphyrin-protein polymersomes”, Journal of the American Chemical Society 131(11):3872-3874.