Nature Communications (Aug 2016)

Shaping polymersomes into predictable morphologies via out-of-equilibrium self-assembly

  • R. S. M. Rikken,
  • H. Engelkamp,
  • R. J. M. Nolte,
  • J. C. Maan,
  • J. C. M. van Hest,
  • D. A. Wilson,
  • P. C. M. Christianen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12606
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Polymersomes are used in many applications, ranging from drug delivery to microfluidics, but controlling their shape is difficult. Here, Christianen and co-workers have precisely controlled polymersome shape via an out-of-equilibrium process and fully understood the mechanism of this procedure.