TY - GEN AU - Amaro-Cruz, Alba AU - Carmona-Bravo, Juana M. AU - García Román, Miguel AU - Moya-Ramírez, Ignacio PY - 2026 SN - 0141-8130 SN - 1879-0003 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/10481/112805 AB - Achieving stable and reproducible microbial co-cultures requires tools to control the population balance among species. To address this challenge, here we present an effective method for microbial encapsulation relying on alginate-core hydrogel beads... LA - eng PB - Elsevier KW - ε-Poly-l-lysine KW - Core-shell microbial encapsulation KW - Microbial co-cultures TI - Complete microbial encapsulation within alginate-εPLL core-shell hydrogel beads enables spatially distributed co-cultures and bioreactor scale-up DO - 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2026.151706 ER -