Themed collection MSDE Open Access Spotlight 2026

Molecular imprinting as a three-stage process highlighting polymerisation as the unresolved mechanistic link between pre-organisation and functional cavity formation.

This perspective identifies physical confinement as a primary CAR T-cell migration barrier and proposes microfluidics to study infiltration and improve therapeutic outcome.

Rapid and accurate prediction of the colloidal phase diagrams is necessary for controlling their structure and properties.

Self-assembled nanostructures comprising phenylalanine-based oligopeptides are widely utilized in various applications across the domains of electronics, personal care, and biomedicine.

Ab initio insights into how the carbon spacer length in zwitterionic polymers tunes water and ice interactions for anti-icing coating design.

Searching through a low-dimensional projection rather than the full latent space associated with a generative model can improve performance and interpretability for biomolecular design.

We developed photoresponsive single-chain polymeric nanoparticles that preserve their global conformation while allowing their local microenvironment to be modulated upon illumination.

Faithful reduced-dimensional solvent representations guide efficient exploration of electrolyte chemical space, accelerating the identification of high-performance solvents for lithium metal batteries.

We analyzed polymer-grafted nanoparticles (PGNPs) solutions confined in between polymer-brushed walls to reveal how the PGNP architectures control the self-assembled structures and the tribological properties.

We present a constrained inverse design strategy that uses relative-entropy minimization to discover simple, experimentally relevant pair potentials that assemble complex crystal superlattices.

Development of nucleolipid (NL) as a low molecular weight oleogelator (LMWO) enables stabilization of thixotropic medium chain triglyceride-based oleogels and oil-in-water nanoemulsions.