D. Berti

Electrostatic interactions control the adsorption of extracellular vesicles onto supported lipid bilayers

This study investigates how electrostatic interactions influence extracellular vesicle adsorption onto lipid membranes and shows that electrostatic forces significantly control this process.

Parallel on-chip micropipettes enabling quantitative multiplexed characterization of vesicle mechanics and cell aggregates rheology

This paper introduces a high-throughput method for quantitatively measuring mechanical properties of biological samples using parallel micropipettes.

Compositional profiling of extracellular vesicles/lipoproteins mixtures by AFM nanomechanical imaging

This paper introduces an AFM-based method to distinguish and quantify lipoproteins and extracellular vesicles in mixed samples using nanomechanical imaging.

Stiffness of fluid and gel phase lipid nanovesicles: weighting the contributions of membrane bending modulus and luminal pressurization

This paper presents a model to quantify the contributions of membrane bending modulus and luminal pressure to the stiffness of lipid nanovesicles, validated through experiments and simulations.

Exploring the structure and mechanics of thin supported inverse bicontinuous cubic phase lipid films

This study creates and analyzes thin supported inverse bicontinuous cubic phase lipid films to understand their structure and mechanical properties.

Gold Nanoparticles interacting with Synthetic Lipid Rafts: an AFM investigation

This study investigates how gold nanoparticles interact with synthetic lipid rafts using AFM, showing they preferentially adsorb at lipid phase boundaries.

AFM-based High-Throughput Nanomechanical Screening of Single Extracellular Vesicles

This paper introduces an AFM-based method to measure the mechanical stiffness and size of single extracellular vesicles by analyzing their deformation geometry.