Enzymatically triggered rupture of polymersomes
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Enzymatically triggered rupture of polymersomes.
Polymersomes are robust vesicles made from amphiphilic block co-polymers. Large populations of uniform giant polymersomes with defined, entrapped species can be made by templating of double-emulsions using microfluidics. In the present study, a series of two enzymatic reactions, one inside and the other outside of the polymersome, were designed to induce rupture of polymersomes. We measured how...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Soft Matter
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1744-683X,1744-6848
DOI: 10.1039/c5sm01881a