Electrostatically Directed Self‐Assembly of Ultrathin Supramolecular Polymer Microcapsules

Supramolecular self‐assembly offers routes to challenging architectures on the molecular and macroscopic scale. Coupled with microfluidics it has been used to make microcapsules—where a 2D sheet is shaped in 3D, encapsulating the volume within. In this paper, a versatile methodology to direct the accumulation of capsule‐forming components to the droplet interface using electrostatic interactions is described. In this approach, charged copolymers are selectively partitioned to the microdroplet interface by a complementary charged surfactant for subsequent supramolecular cross‐linking via cucurbit[8]uril. This dynamic assembly process is employed to selectively form both hollow, ultrathin microcapsules and solid microparticles from a single solution. The ability to dictate the distribution of a mixture of charged copolymers within the microdroplet, as demonstrated by the single‐step fabrication of distinct core–shell microcapsules, gives access to a new generation of innovative self‐assembled constructs.

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• Standort: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Umfang: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: Englisch

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• Erschienen in: Electrostatically Directed Self‐Assembly of Ultrathin Supramolecular Polymer Microcapsules ; volume:25 ; number:26 ; year:2015 ; pages:4091-4100 ; extent:10 ; Advanced functional materials ; 25, Heft 26 (2015), 4091-4100 (gesamt 10)

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• Urheber: Parker, Richard M. ; Zhang, Jing ; Zheng, Yu ; Coulston, Roger J. ; Smith, Clive A. ; Salmon, Andrew R. ; Yu, Ziyi ; Scherman, Oren A. ; Abell, Chris

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201501079
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2022112907592537717705
• Rechteinformation: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.