• Welcome Dr Numann

    Congratulations Dr Kevin Numann newly appointed tenure track associate professor : his research focusses on utilizing nanomedicinal approaches to overcome existing challenges in drug delivery that cannot be addressed by traditional pharmaceutical approaches such as efficient precision medicine

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  • Article in Nature Communications

    Congratulations to Jiawei, Sjoerd, Jiabin and Shaohua for their recent publication in Nature Communications demonstrating how local bio membrane curvature can be expressed in synthetic polymersome systems.

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  • New Horizons in Liquid Compartmentalization

    Read our perspective article on segregative aqueous phase separation, discussing the theory of this phenomenon, and an overview of the evolution of aqueous phase separation in microfluidics.

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Precise and Active Hydrogen Therapy Towards Acute Ischemic Stroke

Professor Wilson and former group members Profs Yinfeng Tu and Fei Peng applied a new motor type for scavenging ROS and inflammation exhibiting significant decrease in infarct volume,
improved spatial learning and memory capability with minimal adverse effects.

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Generating biomembrane-like local curvature in polymersomes via dynamic polymer insertion

We successfully mimic biomembrane curvature formation in polymersomes. Furthermore, polymer insertion induced shape changing will open up new routes for the design of non-axisymmetric nanocarriers and nanomachines to enrich the boundless possibilities of nanotechnology.

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Exploring New Horizons in Liquid Compartmentalization via Microfluidics

Spatial organization of cellular processes is crucial to efficiently regulate life’s essential reactions. Nature does this by compartmentalization, either using membranes, such as the cell and nuclear membrane, or by liquid-like droplets formed by aqueous liquid–liquid phase separation.

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Photosynthesis Drives the Motion of Bio-nanomotors

We have used photosynthesis to propell nano-motors we have shown the first encapsulation of plant organelles into supramolecular assemblies and demonstrated that active motion propelled by oxygen produced by water-splitting

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Selected Publications from our group

Here you can view a representative group of our most recent publications. The research lines within the systems chemistry department range from synthetic organic chemistry for developing tools to construct supramolecular  and polymer architectures, their self assembly and self-organisation into systems that carry out autonomous and responsive tasks and the application of these nano-machines and nano-motors in the field of next generation medicines and nano medicines. The wilson group focusses on the emergence of function in supramolecular motile systems. The Kouwer group focusses on responsive networks in molecular materials. The Neumann group employs macro molecular approaches to drug delivery in nano-medicine.

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Minimally Invasive Therapy: Hydrogen‐Powered Microswimmers for Precise and Active Hydrogen Therapy Towards Acute Ischemic Stroke

Shuanghu Wang, Kun Liu, Quan Zhou, Cong Xu, Junbin Gao, Zhen Wang, Fei Wang, Bin Chen, Yicheng Ye, Juanfeng Ou, Jiamiao Jiang, Daniela A Wilson, Shuwen Liu, Fei Peng, Yingfeng Tu

Generating biomembrane-like local curvature in polymersomes via dynamic polymer insertion

Jiawei Sun, Sjoerd J. Rijpkema, Jiabin Luan, Shaohua Zhang & Daniela A. Wilson

Control the Neural Stem Cell Fate with Biohybrid Piezoelectrical Magnetite Micromotors

Lu Liu, Juanyan Wu, Shuanghu Wang, Liu Kun, Junbin Gao, Bin Chen, Yicheng Ye, Fei Wang, Fei Tong, Jiamiao Jiang, Juanfeng Ou, Daniela A. Wilson, Yingfeng Tu, and Fei Peng

Exploring New Horizons in Liquid Compartmentalization via Microfluidics

Shauni Keller, Serena P. Teora, Moussa Boujemaa, and Daniela A. Wilson

Professor Daniela Wilson

Biography

Daniela Wilson (1978, Comanesti, Romania) received her BSc in Chemistry and Physics in 2001, and her MSc in Environmental Chemistry in 2003 from Al. I. Cuza University of Iasi (Romania

Professor Daniela Wilson

Chair of Systems Chemistry
Theme Leader NanoMedicine

Institute for Molecules and Materials, Radboud University Nijmegen
Heyendaalseweg 135 6525 AJ Nijmegen

Biography

Daniela Wilson (1978, Comanesti, Romania) received her BSc in Chemistry and Physics in 2001, and her MSc in Environmental Chemistry in 2003 from Al. I. Cuza University of Iasi (Romania). In 2007 she obtained her PhD summa cum laude from the Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iasi on research into the relationship between structure and properties in mesogenic systems (liquid crystals).

As an Exchange PhD student, she stayed at the Himeji Institute of Technology, Japan, (2003-2004), as EU Marie Curie Fellow (2004-2005) and as a guest researcher (2006-2007) at the University of Hull, UK. She worked as postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA (2007 - 2010) and in 2010 she became a researcher at the Radboud University Institute for Molecules and Materials. She is a visiting lecturer (honorary position) at the Gheorghe Asachi University of Iasi.

Daniela Wilson received a large number of scholarships and honors, such as the Nano-Micro Letters Researcher Award 2016 for research excellence in the field of nano- and micro- science, Aspasia 2016 by NWO, Nanoscience Award 2015, the Athena Prize of NWO (2015) for Excellence Female Chemists, an ERC Starting Grant for her self-assembly nanorakets research (2012) and a Vidi grant from NWO in 2015 for translating the nanomotor research into the clinic; the use of locomotive self-assembled carriers for targeted drug delivery and diagnostics.

Moussa B. Boujemaa

Research Assistant

Bela Berking

PhD Student

Sandra Kleusken

PhD Student