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Bioimprint Mediated Label-Free Isolation of Pancreatic Tumor Cells from a Healthy Peripheral Blood Cell Population (2020)
Journal Article
Pelle, M., Das, A. A. K., Madden, L. A., & Paunov, V. N. (in press). Bioimprint Mediated Label-Free Isolation of Pancreatic Tumor Cells from a Healthy Peripheral Blood Cell Population. Advanced Biosystems, Article 2000054. https://doi.org/10.1002/adbi.202000054

New techniques are required for earlier diagnosis and response to treatment of pancreatic cancer. Here, a label-free approach is reported in which circulating pancreatic tumor cells are isolated from healthy peripheral blood cells via cell bioimprint... Read More about Bioimprint Mediated Label-Free Isolation of Pancreatic Tumor Cells from a Healthy Peripheral Blood Cell Population.

Removal of Human Leukemic Cells from Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells by Cell Recognition Chromatography with Size Matched Particle Imprints (2020)
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Chester, R., Das, A. A. K., Medlock, J., Nees, D., Allsup, D. J., Madden, L. A., & Paunov, V. N. (2020). Removal of Human Leukemic Cells from Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells by Cell Recognition Chromatography with Size Matched Particle Imprints. ACS Applied Bio Materials, 3(2), 789-800. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsabm.9b00770

We report a cell recognition chromatography approach for blood cancer cell separation from healthy peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) based on sizematched functionalized particle imprints. Negative imprints were prepared from layers of 15 μm... Read More about Removal of Human Leukemic Cells from Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells by Cell Recognition Chromatography with Size Matched Particle Imprints.

Targeted removal of blood cancer cells from mixed cell populations by cell recognition with matching particle imprints (2019)
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Das, A. A., Remaud, P., Medlock, J., Das, A. A. K., Allsup, D. J., Madden, L. A., Nees, D., Weldrick, P. J., & Paunov, V. N. (2019). Targeted removal of blood cancer cells from mixed cell populations by cell recognition with matching particle imprints. Materials Chemistry Frontiers, 4(1), 197-205. https://doi.org/10.1039/c9qm00531e

We report a new approach for separation of blood cancer cells from healthy white blood cells based on cell recognition by surface functionalised particle imprints. We prepared polymeric particle imprints from a layer of suspension of monodisperse PMM... Read More about Targeted removal of blood cancer cells from mixed cell populations by cell recognition with matching particle imprints.

Fabrication of Human Keratinocyte Cell Clusters for Skin Graft Applications by Templating Water-in-Water Pickering Emulsions (2019)
Journal Article
Celik, S., Dominici, S., Filby, B., Das, A., Madden, L. A., & Paunov, V. N. (2019). Fabrication of Human Keratinocyte Cell Clusters for Skin Graft Applications by Templating Water-in-Water Pickering Emulsions. Biomimetics, 4(3), Article 50. https://doi.org/10.3390/biomimetics4030050

Most current methods for the preparation of tissue spheroids require complex materials, involve tedious physical steps and are generally not scalable. We report a novel alternative, which is both inexpensive and up-scalable, to produce large quantiti... Read More about Fabrication of Human Keratinocyte Cell Clusters for Skin Graft Applications by Templating Water-in-Water Pickering Emulsions.

Bioimprint aided cell recognition and depletion of human leukemic HL60 cells from peripheral blood (2019)
Journal Article
Das, A. A., Medlock, J., Liang, H., Nees, D., Allsup, D. J., Madden, L. A., & Paunov, V. N. (2019). Bioimprint aided cell recognition and depletion of human leukemic HL60 cells from peripheral blood. Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 7(22), 3497-3504. https://doi.org/10.1039/c9tb00679f

We report a large scale preparation of bioimprints of layers of cultured human leukemic HL60 cells which can perform cell shape and size recognition from a mixture with peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs). We demonstrate that the bioimprint-ce... Read More about Bioimprint aided cell recognition and depletion of human leukemic HL60 cells from peripheral blood.

Capillary structured suspensions from in situ hydrophobized calcium carbonate particles suspended in a polar liquid media (2017)
Journal Article
Dunstan, T. S., Das, A. A. K., Starck, P., Stoyanov, S. D., & Paunov, V. N. (2018). Capillary structured suspensions from in situ hydrophobized calcium carbonate particles suspended in a polar liquid media. Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids, 34(1), 442-452. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.7b03589

© 2017 American Chemical Society. We demonstrate that capillary suspensions can be formed from hydrophilic calcium carbonate particles suspended in a polar continuous media and connected by capillary bridges formed of minute amounts of an immiscible... Read More about Capillary structured suspensions from in situ hydrophobized calcium carbonate particles suspended in a polar liquid media.

Thermally responsive capillary suspensions (2017)
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Das, A. A., Dunstan, T. S., Stoyanov, S. D., Starck, P., & Paunov, V. N. (2017). Thermally responsive capillary suspensions. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 9(50), 44152-44160. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.7b11358

© 2017 American Chemical Society. We demonstrate that stimulus-responsive capillary-structured materials can be formed from hydrophobized calcium carbonate particles suspended in a non-polar phase (silicone oil) and bridged by very small amounts of a... Read More about Thermally responsive capillary suspensions.

High throughput fabrication of cell spheroids by templating water-in-water Pickering emulsions (2017)
Journal Article
Das, A. A. K., Filby, B. W., Geddes, D. A., Legrande, D., & Paunov, V. N. (2017). High throughput fabrication of cell spheroids by templating water-in-water Pickering emulsions. Materials Horizons, 4(6), 1196-1200. https://doi.org/10.1039/c7mh00677b

© The Royal Society of Chemistry 2017. We report a simple technique for the high throughput generation of tissue spheroids based on the encapsulation of dispersed adherent cells in particle-stabilised water-in-water emulsions. We demonstrate cell enc... Read More about High throughput fabrication of cell spheroids by templating water-in-water Pickering emulsions.

Cancer bioimprinting and cell shape recognition for diagnosis and targeted treatment (2017)
Journal Article
Medlock, J., Das, A. A. K., Madden, L. A., Allsup, D. J., & Paunov, V. N. (2017). Cancer bioimprinting and cell shape recognition for diagnosis and targeted treatment. Chemical Society Reviews, 46(16), 5110-5127. https://doi.org/10.1039/c7cs00179g

Cancer incidence and mortality have both increased in the last decade and are predicted to continue to rise. Diagnosis and treatment of cancers are often hampered by the inability to specifically target neoplastic cells. Bioimprinting is a promising... Read More about Cancer bioimprinting and cell shape recognition for diagnosis and targeted treatment.

Fabrication of living soft matter by symbiotic growth of unicellular microorganisms (2016)
Journal Article
Das, A. A. K., Bovill, J., Ayesh, M., Stoyanov, S. D., & Paunov, V. N. (2016). Fabrication of living soft matter by symbiotic growth of unicellular microorganisms. Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 4(21), 3685-3694. https://doi.org/10.1039/c5tb02489g

We report the fabrication of living soft matter made as a result of the symbiotic relationship of two unicellular microorganisms. The material is composed of bacterial cellulose produced in situ by acetobacter (Acetobacter aceti NCIMB 8132) in the pr... Read More about Fabrication of living soft matter by symbiotic growth of unicellular microorganisms.

Artificial leaf device for hydrogen generation from immobilised C. reinhardtii microalgae (2015)
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Das, A. A. K., Esfahani, M. M. N., Velev, O. D., Pamme, N., & Paunov, V. N. (2015). Artificial leaf device for hydrogen generation from immobilised C. reinhardtii microalgae. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 3(41), 20698-20707. https://doi.org/10.1039/c5ta07112g

We developed a fully biomimetic leaf-like device for hydrogen production which allows incorporated fabric-immobilised microalgae culture to be simultaneously hydrated with media and harvested from the produced hydrogen in a continuous flow regime wit... Read More about Artificial leaf device for hydrogen generation from immobilised C. reinhardtii microalgae.