Engineering Functional Polymer Capsules toward Smart Nanoreactors

Polymer Capsules: Versatile Loading of Diverse Cargo into Functional Polymer Capsules (Adv. Sci. 1‐2/2015)

Engineering responsive supramolecular biomaterials: Toward smart therapeutics

Engineering materials using supramolecular principles enables generalizable and modular platforms that have tunable chemical, mechanical, and biological properties. Applying this bottom-up, molecular engineering-based approach to therapeutic design affords unmatched control of emergent properties and functionalities. In preparing responsive materials for biomedical applications, the dynamic cha...

Versatile Loading of Diverse Cargo into Functional Polymer Capsules

Polymer microcapsules are of particular interest for applications including self-healing coatings, catalysis, bioreactions, sensing, and drug delivery. The primary way that polymer capsules can exhibit functionality relevant to these diverse fields is through the incorporation of functional cargo in the capsule cavity or wall. Diverse functional and therapeutic cargo can be loaded into polymer ...

Toward high open-circuit voltage by smart chain engineering in 2D-conjugated polymer for polymer solar cells

Two electron-donating sides chain (octylthio and methoxy) were strategically attached on BDTT unit to develop two new polymers (PBDTT-OS-TT-EF and PBDTT-OS-TT-CF) as donor materials for polymer solar cells. PBDTT-OS-TT-EF and PBDTT-OS-TT-CF show broad absorption spectra with narrow optical bandgap of 1.52 and 1.56 eV, and low-lying HOMO energy level of 5.34 and 5.46 eV, respectively. A high Voc...

Smart Silver Nanoparticles from Nanoreactors made by Invertible Polyesters

We developed a simple way to prepare smart silver nanoparticles that are well dispersible in both polar and nonpolar media. The synthesis was performed using solutions of an invertible amphiphilic polyester made via a polycondensation reaction of sebacic acid and poly(ethylene glycol). Reduction, formation of silver nanoparticles, and their stabilization occur in the polyester micellar domains ...