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  • Nanotechnology
  • Materials science

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  • Hierarchically built-up multicompartment nanoaggregate systems are crucial for advanced materials and medicine.
  • Dendrimers offer versatile building blocks for creating complex nanoscale architectures.
  • Controlling the co-assembly of multiple components within a single nanostructure is a significant challenge.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To present a versatile strategy for generating and characterizing complex coacervate-core micelles.
  • To demonstrate the controlled co-assembly of up to four different dendrimeric subcomponents within a single micellar core.
  • To investigate the influence of co-encapsulated components on Förster Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) efficiency.

Main Methods:

  • Utilizing four different dendrimeric subcomponents to form complex coacervate-core micelles.
  • Employing FRET between fluorescein and rhodamine moieties on polyamidoamine (PAMAM) dendrimers to confirm synchronous encapsulation.
  • Varying the ratio of functionalized dendrimers and co-assembling non-functionalized dendrimers to optimize FRET efficiency.
  • Investigating the effect of co-encapsulated gold nanoparticles (G6-Au) and their subsequent removal on FRET efficiency.

Main Results:

  • Successfully generated complex coacervate-core micelles with a hydrodynamic diameter of 50 nm, hosting approximately thirty 6th generation PAMAM dendrimers.
  • Demonstrated synchronous encapsulation of different dendrimers within the micelle core using FRET with an efficiency of ~0.2.
  • Identified optimal FRET efficiency at a minimum of 70% loading of functionalized dendrimers (G6-F and G6-R).
  • Showed that co-encapsulated gold nanoparticles significantly reduce FRET efficiency, which can be restored by chemical etching.

Conclusions:

  • Developed a versatile strategy for the controlled co-assembly of multiple dendrimeric subcomponents into complex coacervate-core micelles.
  • Established a method to tune FRET efficiency within the micellar core by controlling component proximity and composition.
  • Highlighted the potential for designing diverse nanoscale structures by incorporating various dendrimers or other molecules within the micellar core for applications in materials science and medicine.