A dual-gated polymersome nanoreactor
Ping Wei1, Dongjing Guo1, Jinghua Chen1
1Key Laboratory of Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences and Health Engineering, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, China. weiping@jiangnan.edu.cn.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|March 17, 2026
Abstract:
We devised a simple method to regulate the membrane permeability of polymersomes. The key concept of our method is to use stimuli-responsive block copolymers as gate-generating components. Such copolymers have been adopted to prepare 'smart nanoreactors' that respond to changes in temperature or solution pH.
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