Congratulations to Bea Jones whose work on light-responsive cubosomes has been published in JACS! We created nanoparticles with an internal, cubic liquid crystal phase, suitable to entrap small molecules. Using UV light, the release of these entrapped molecules could be triggered by squeezing the cubic lattice. These stimuli-responsive release systems may have huge potential as next-generation nanodelivery devices for drugs and catalysts. This work is supported by a joint EPSRC/ Diamond Light Source studentship.

You can read the paper here: Light-Responsive Molecular Release from Cubosomes Using Swell-Squeeze Lattice Control, Beatrice E. Jones, Elaine A. Kelly, Nathan Cowieson, Giorgio Divitini, and Rachel C. Evans*, JACS, 2022.