Autocatalytic membrane-amplification on a pre-existing vesicular surface

摘要

In water, phosphoric membrane molecule (V~- ) self-assembled to form an anionic giant vesicle, the surface of which served as a catalyst for the autocatalytic formation of V~- from its membrane precursor (V~*), and the amplified V~- produced a new vesicle using the original vesicle as a scaffold. Autocatalytic formation of the component of a self-assembly of amphiphiles in water has drawn considerable attention from a view point of a morphological change or a self-production of the amphiphilic self-assembly.Interestingly, such macroscopic dynamics emerge from microscopic chemical reactions that occurred on the surface of or within the self-assembly.