Facile directed assembly of hollow polymer nanocapsules within spontaneously formed catanionic surfactant vesicles

Mariya D. Kim, Sergey A. Dergunov, Andrew G. Richter, Jeffrey Durbin, Sergey N. Shmakov, Ying Jia, Saltanat Kenbeilova, Yerbolat Orazbekuly, Aigerim Kengpeiil, Ernö Lindner, Sai Venkatesh Pingali, Volker S. Urban, Steven Weigand, Eugene Pinkhassik

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Abstract

Surfactant vesicles containing monomers in the interior of the bilayer were used to template hollow polymer nanocapsules. This study investigated the formation of surfactant/monomer assemblies by two loading methods, concurrent loading and diffusion loading. The assembly process and the resulting aggregates were investigated with dynamic light scattering, small angle neutron scattering, and small-angle X-ray scattering. Acrylic monomers formed vesicles with a mixture of cationic and anionic surfactants in a broad range of surfactant ratios. Regions with predominant formation of vesicles were broader for compositions containing acrylic monomers compared with blank surfactants. This observation supports the stabilization of the vesicular structure by acrylic monomers. Diffusion loading produced monomer-loaded vesicles unless vesicles were composed from surfactants at the ratios close to the boundary of a vesicular phase region on a phase diagram. Both concurrent-loaded and diffusion-loaded surfactant/monomer vesicles produced hollow polymer nanocapsules upon the polymerization of monomers in the bilayer followed by removal of surfactant scaffolds.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)7061-7069
Number of pages9
JournalLangmuir
Volume30
Issue number24
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 24 2014

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