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Hydrodynamically driven self-assembly of giant vesicles of metal nanoparticles for remote-controlled release
Jie He1, Zengjiang Wei, Lei Wang
1Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA.
Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English)
|January 31, 2013
Abstract:
The hydrodynamics of laminar flow in a microfluidic device has been used to control the continuous self-assembly of gold nanoparticles (NPs) tethered with amphiphilic block copolymers. Spherical micelles, giant vesicles (500 nm-2.0 μm), or disk-like micelles could be formed by varying the flow rates of fluids. Such vesicles can release encapsulated hydrophilic species by using near-IR light.
