Abstract
We introduce here a concept allowing the synthesis of smart nanocapsules without a surfactant.
Highlights
We introduce here a concept allowing the synthesis of smart nanocapsules without a surfactant
Copolymers with masked carboxylic acid groups are desilylated during the nanocapsule preparation and this leads to pH-responsive and self-stabilized nanocontainers encapsulating a large amount of hydrophobic substances
On the contrary to the systems based on vesicles, this simple method allows the encapsulation of a large amount of hydrophobic liquid substances such as organic solvents5b and self-healing agents.5c Despite its popularity, this method suffers from important drawbacks, which are the presence of surfactant in the final dispersion and the very low concentration of the nanocapsules produced, i.e. typically (
Summary
We introduce here a concept allowing the synthesis of smart nanocapsules without a surfactant. Copolymers with masked carboxylic acid groups are desilylated during the nanocapsule preparation and this leads to pH-responsive and self-stabilized nanocontainers encapsulating a large amount of hydrophobic substances.
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