Crosslinked polymer nanocapsules

H Sun, CK Chen, H Cui, C Cheng - Polymer International, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Polymer nanocapsules (PNCs) are an important class of nanocarriers, but applications of
conventional non‐crosslinked PNCs have been significantly limited because they are …

Building functional nanodevices with vesicle-templated porous polymer nanocapsules

SA Dergunov, MD Kim, SN Shmakov… - Accounts of Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Vesicle-templated nanocapsules offer a unique combination of properties
enabled by robust shells with single-nanometer thickness containing programmed uniform …

Synthesis, characterization, and long-term stability of hollow polymer nanocapsules with nanometer-thin walls

SA Dergunov, K Kesterson, W Li, Z Wang… - …, 2010 - ACS Publications
Hollow polymer nanocapsules are produced by the polymerization within hydrophobic
interior of lipid bilayers that act as temporary self-assembled scaffolds. Pore-forming …

Facile directed assembly of hollow polymer nanocapsules within spontaneously formed catanionic surfactant vesicles

MD Kim, SA Dergunov, AG Richter, J Durbin… - Langmuir, 2014 - ACS Publications
Surfactant vesicles containing monomers in the interior of the bilayer were used to template
hollow polymer nanocapsules. This study investigated the formation of surfactant/monomer …

pH-mediated catch and release of charged molecules with porous hollow nanocapsules

SA Dergunov, J Durbin, S Pattanaik… - Journal of the …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Here, we show that the charge of the nanopores in the nanometer-thin shells of hollow
porous nanocapsules can regulate the transport of charged molecules. By changing the pH …

Controlled Cellular Delivery of Amphiphilic Cargo by Redox‐Responsive Nanocontainers

WC de Vries, S Kudruk, D Grill, M Niehues… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The specific transport of amphiphilic compounds such as fluorescently labeled
phospholipids into cells is a prerequisite for the analysis of highly dynamic cellular …

Recent progress in designing shell cross-linked polymer capsules for drug delivery

B Miksa - RSC advances, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
This tutorial review highlights the progress made during recent years in the development of
the shell cross-linked (SCL) polymer nanocapsules and the impact of the most important …

Scattering studies of hydrophobic monomers in liposomal bilayers: an expanding shell model of monomer distribution

AG Richter, SA Dergunov, B Ganus, Z Thomas… - Langmuir, 2011 - ACS Publications
Hydrophobic monomers partially phase separate from saturated lipids when loaded into
lipid bilayers in amounts exceeding a 1: 1 monomer/lipid molar ratio. This conclusion is …

Directed assembly of vesicle-templated polymer nanocapsules under near-physiological conditions

MD Kim, SA Dergunov, E Pinkhassik - Langmuir, 2015 - ACS Publications
This work addresses the challenge of creating hollow polymer capsules with wall thickness
in the single-nanometer range under mild conditions. We present a simple and scalable …

Unraveling the single-nanometer thickness of shells of vesicle-templated polymer nanocapsules

AG Richter, SA Dergunov, MD Kim… - The Journal of …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Vesicle-templated nanocapsules have emerged as a viable platform for diverse
applications. Shell thickness is a critical structural parameter of nanocapsules, where the …