Dr Avinash Patil

Research summary

Research Interests include the development of new"bottom-up" concepts and approaches to the controlled fabrication of hybrid nanomaterials with functions that can be integrated into a range of applications such as catalysis, sensing, controlled drug release and nanocomposites.

Key Examples:

• Hybrid protocells (Nature Chemistry, 2018, 10, 1154; Nature Materials, 2018, 17, 1145; ACS Central Sci., 2018, 4, 1551)
• Soft hybrid materials (Small, 2018, Soft Matter, 2018, 14, 5950, Chem.Comm., 2012, 48, 7934, Angew Chem., 2011, 50, 9343, Soft Matter, 2011, 18, 8120; Chem. Eur. J., 2012, 18, 6008)
• Bioinorganic nanostructures/nanocomposites and organic supramolecular assemblies (Nanoscale, 2013, 7, 7161 ...

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Selected publications

• Patil, AJ, Li, M & Mann, S, 2013, ‘Integrative self-assembly of functional hybrid nanoconstructs by inorganic wrapping of single biomolecules, biomolecule arrays and organic supramolecular assemblies’. NanoLetts, vol 5., pp. 7161

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Recent publications

• Rodríguez-Arco, L, Kumar, BVVSP, Li, M, Patil, AJ & Mann, S, 2019, ‘Modulation of Higher-order Behaviour in Model Protocell Communities by Artificial Phagocytosis’. Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, vol 58., pp. 6333-6337
• Tian, L, Li, M, Patil, AJ, Drinkwater, BW & Mann, S, 2019, ‘Artificial morphogen-mediated differentiation in synthetic protocells’. Nature Communications, vol 10.

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