Regulating vesicle bilayer permeability and selectivity via stimuli-triggered polymersome-to-PICsome transition

Xiaorui Wang; Chenzhi Yao; Guoying Zhang; Shiyong Liu

doi:10.1038/s41467-020-15304-x

Nature Communications (Mar 2020)

Regulating vesicle bilayer permeability and selectivity via stimuli-triggered polymersome-to-PICsome transition

Xiaorui Wang,
Chenzhi Yao,
Guoying Zhang,
Shiyong Liu

Affiliations

Xiaorui Wang: CAS Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Chemistry, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China
Chenzhi Yao: CAS Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Chemistry, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China
Guoying Zhang: CAS Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Chemistry, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China
Shiyong Liu: CAS Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Chemistry, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15304-x
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Polyion complex vesicles have advantageous applications but have poorly tuneable permeability and nanostructure stability. Here, the authors develop polyion complex vesicles created using a stimuli-triggered transition from polymersomes and show high stability and switchable bilayer permaselectivity.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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