NSF award 2532282 · University of Massachusetts Amherst

Photoswitchable Lipid Bilayer Membranes for New Bioinspired Materials: Driving instabilities to trigger release, motion, and topological changes

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29 December 2028

in 803 days · The award ends on 31 August 2028.

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Award number: 2532282
Period of support: 1 Sep 2025 – 31 Aug 2028
Amount: $540,000
Awardee: University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA
Program: BIOMATERIALS PROGRAM
Directorate: MPS

Abstract

Non-technical abstract: This project lays a foundation for fully synthetic, lab-made membranes that can mimic the uniquely useful functions performed by the membranes of living cells. Instead of being powered and driven by active proteins, however, these new membranes are powered and driven by light: they are photoswitchable. In the future, these membranes could form the basis of artificial cells with organelle-like…

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