TY  - JOUR
AU  - Yalcinkaya, Hacer
AU  - Mangiapia, Gaetano
AU  - Appavou, Marie-Sousai
AU  - Hoffmann, Ingo
AU  - Gradzielski, Michael
TI  - Polymeric Nanocapsules from Well-Defined Zwitanionic Vesicles as a Template
JO  - Macromolecules
VL  - 55
IS  - 17
SN  - 0024-9297
CY  - Washington, DC
PB  - Soc.
M1  - FZJ-2022-04161
SP  - 7869 - 7878
PY  - 2022
AB  - Polymeric nanocapsules have application in versatile fields, thus they have drawn much attention in the past decade. Preparing a homogeneous, uniform, small nanocapsule system is challenging and requires further improvement. A powerful way for realizing controlled synthesis of these submicron structures is by initiating them from a vesicular basis. Herein, we report the formation of highly monodisperse and rather small polymeric nanocapsules originating from a well-defined self-assembled surfactant-based system. In our approach, a monomer is initially dissolved in surfactant micelles, which are transformed spontaneously into well-defined vesicles upon mixing with a second  surfactant solution. Subsequently, the monomer-loaded vesicles become polymerized via UV-initiated polymerization, where different amounts of monomers and cross-linkers are employed. The whole process is characterized in  detail by light scattering and small-angle neutron scattering (SLS, DLS, and SANS) analyses. The final product of small, unilamellar, highly monodisperse polymeric nanocapsules has potential for applications with entrapping the cargo either in the aqueous core or in the hydrophobic membrane.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000848470800001
DO  - DOI:10.1021/acs.macromol.2c01023
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/910809
ER  -