Interfacial Membranization of Regenerated Cellulose Nanoparticles and a Protein Renders Stable Water-in-Water Emulsion

Ya Zhu; Marco Beaumont; Katariina Solin; Panagiotis Spiliopoulos; Bin Zhao; Han Tao; Eero Kontturi; Long Bai; Orlando Rojas

doi:10.1002/smll.202400952

Interfacial Membranization of Regenerated Cellulose Nanoparticles and a Protein Renders Stable Water-in-Water Emulsion

Ya Zhu
, Marco Beaumont^*
, Katariina Solin
, Panagiotis Spiliopoulos
, Bin Zhao
, Han Tao
, Eero Kontturi
, Long Bai^*
, Orlando Rojas^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

BA5407 Bioinspired materials

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Pickering water-in-water (W/W) emulsions stabilized by biobased colloids are pertinent to engineering biomaterials with hierarchical and confined architectures. In this study, stable W/W emulsions are developed through membranization utilizing biopolymer structures formed by the adsorption of cellulose II nanospheres and a globular protein, bovine serum albumin (BSA), at droplet surfaces. The produced cellulose II nanospheres (NPcat, 63 nm diameter) bearing a soft and highly accessible shell, endow rapid and significant binding (16 mg cm−2) with BSA. NPcat and BSA formed complexes that spontaneously stabilized liquid droplets, resulting in stable W/W emulsions. It is proposed that such a system is a versatile all-aqueous platform for encapsulation, (bio)catalysis, delivery, and synthetic cell mimetics.

Original language	English
Article number	2400952
Journal	Small
Volume	20
Issue number	44
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.202400952
Publication status	Published - 16 Jul 2024
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

Keywords

aqueous two-phase systems
membranization
regenerated cellulose nanospheres
water-in-water emulsion

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