Metabolism and compartmentalization are two of life's most central elements. Constructing synthetic assemblies based on prebiotically relevant molecules that combine these elements can provide insight into the requirements for formation life-like protocells from abiotic building blocks. In this work, we show a wide variety small anionic metabolites form complex coacervate with oligoarginine (R1...

Using the complex Langevin sampling strategy, field theoretic simulations are performed to study the equilibrium phase behavior and structure of symmetric polycation-polyanion mixtures without salt in good solvents. Static structure factors for the segment density and charge density are calculated and used to study the role of fluctuations in the electrostatic and chemical potential fields beyo...

We describe the synthesis and characterisation of novel photocatalytic multiphase micro-droplet reactors comprising TiO2 nanosheets dispersed in poly(diallyldimethylammonium) chloride and adenosine 5'-triphosphate or poly(ethylene glycol) 4-nonylphenyl 3-sulfopropyl complex coacervates. We demonstrate significant variations in the degree of equilibrium partitioning of small molecule dyes into t...