Particles with Tunable Porosity and Morphology by Controlling Interfacial Instability in Block Copolymer Emulsions

ACS Nano

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 5243-5251

  Ku, Kang Hee ^a,b   Shin, Jae Man ^a   Klinger, Daniel ^b,c   Jang, Se Gyu ^d   Hayward, Ryan C ^e   Hawker, Craig J ^b   Kim, Bumjoon J ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d Korea Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

block copolymer; drug delivery; emulsion droplet; interfacial instability; porous particle

Indexed keywords

DROPS; DRUG DELIVERY; EMULSIFICATION; EMULSIONS; PORE SIZE; POROSITY; POROUS MATERIALS; SODIUM DODECYL SULFATE; SODIUM SULFATE; STABILITY;

CONTROLLABLE MORPHOLOGY; EMULSION DROPLETS; INTERFACIAL BEHAVIORS; INTERFACIAL INSTABILITY; OIL-IN-WATER EMULSIONS; POLY(4-VINYL PYRIDINE); POROUS PARTICLE; SYNERGISTIC ADSORPTIONS;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS;

EID: 84973324701     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.6b00985     Document Type: Article

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