Nature Communications (Jun 2019)

Thermoresponsive nanoemulsion-based gel synthesized through a low-energy process

  • Seyed Meysam Hashemnejad,
  • Abu Zayed Md Badruddoza,
  • Brady Zarket,
  • Carlos Ricardo Castaneda,
  • Patrick S. Doyle

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10749-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Hydrogel emulsions enable facile loading of bioactive compounds but fabrication methods which allow upscaling and low cytotoxicity are scarce. Here, the authors report a thermally triggered low energy gelation mechanism based on the interaction between a nontoxic Pluronic and nanoemulsion droplets.