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A novel gel deformation technique for fabrication of ellipsoidal and discoidal polymeric microparticles
Anne-Claude Courbaron1, Olivier J Cayre, Vesselin N Paunov
1Surfactant & Colloid Group, Department of Chemistry, University of Hull, Hull, UK HU6 7RX.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|February 1, 2007
Abstract:
A simple fabrication technique for anisotropic particles of ellipsoidal/discoidal shape has been developed, based on stretching/compressing of oil-in-water emulsion templates embedded into an elastic aqueous gel; a range of solid anisotropic microparticles have been fabricated by polymerising of the deformed oil drops in the elastic gel matrix and their shape and aspect ratios have been studied as a function of the gel deformation.
