Self-assembly of amphiphilic Janus dendrimers into uniform onion-like dendrimersomes with predictable size and number of bilayers

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 25, 2014, Pages 9058-9063

  Zhang, Shaodong ^a   Sun, Hao Jan ^a   Hughes, Andrew D ^a   Moussodia, Ralph Olivier ^a   Bertin, Annabelle ^a   Chen, Yingchao ^b   Pochan, Darrin J ^b   Heiney, Paul A ^a   Klein, Michael L ^c   Percec, Virgil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^c Temple University   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomembrane mimics; Multibilayer vesicles; Synthetic membranes

Indexed keywords

AMPHIPHILIC JANUS DENDRIMER; DENDRIMER; TETRAHYDROFURAN; TRIETHYLENE GLYCOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BILAYER MEMBRANE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DENDRIMERSOME; HYDROPHILICITY; HYDROPHOBICITY; LIGHT SCATTERING; MEMBRANE; MOLECULAR SIZE; ONION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURFACE TENSION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

BIOMEMBRANE MIMICS; MULTIBILAYER VESICLES; SYNTHETIC MEMBRANES;

BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS; DENDRIMERS; LIPID BILAYERS;

EID: 84903457066     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1402858111     Document Type: Article

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