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SUBMITTER: Wong CK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5665895 | biostudies-other | 2017 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Wong Chin Ken CK Mason Alexander F AF Stenzel Martina H MH Thordarson Pall P
Nature communications 20171101 1
Polymersomes, made up of amphiphilic block copolymers, are emerging as a powerful tool in drug delivery and synthetic biology due to their high stability, chemical versatility, and surface modifiability. The full potential of polymersomes, however, has been hindered by a lack of versatile methods for shape control. Here we show that a range of non-spherical polymersome morphologies with anisotropic membranes can be obtained by exploiting hydrophobic directional aromatic interactions between pery ...[more]