A Polymersome Nanoreactor with Controllable Permeability Induced by Stimuli-Responsive Block Copolymers

Kim, Kyoung Taek and Cornelissen, Jeroen J.L.M. and Nolte, Roeland J.M. and Hest van, Jan C.M. (2009) A Polymersome Nanoreactor with Controllable Permeability Induced by Stimuli-Responsive Block Copolymers. Advanced Materials, 21 (27). pp. 2787-2791. ISSN 0935-9648

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Abstract:	A method to generate and control the permeability of polymersome membranes using mixtures of amphiphilic and stimuli-responsive boronic acid-containing block copolymers is reported. The latter block copolymers form phase-separated domains in the polymersomes, which can be dissolved by increasing the pH of the medium or by introducing sugar molecules that covalently bind to the boronic acid moieties.
Item Type:	Article
Copyright:	© 2009 WILEY-VCH Verlag
Faculty:	Science and Technology (TNW)
Research Group:	Biomolecular Nanotechnology (BNT)
Link to this item:	http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/77551
Official URL:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adma.200900300
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