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Chemical Communications

A novel gel deformation technique for fabrication of ellipsoidal and discoidal polymeric microparticles

Anne-Claude Courbaron,a   Olivier J. Cayreab  and  Vesselin N. Paunov*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Surfactant & Colloid Group, Department of Chemistry, University of Hull, Hull, UK
E-mail: V.N.Paunov@hull.ac.uk
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Tel: +44 (0)1482 465660

b Department of Biomolecular and Chemical Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA

Abstract

A simple fabrication technique for anisotropic particles of ellipsoidal/discoidal shape has been developed, based on stretching/compressing of oil-in-water emulsion templates embedded into an elastic aqueous gel; a range of solid anisotropic microparticles have been fabricated by polymerising of the deformed oil drops in the elastic gel matrix and their shape and aspect ratios have been studied as a function of the gel deformation.

Graphical abstract: A novel gel deformation technique for fabrication of ellipsoidal and discoidal polymeric microparticles

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B610994B
Article type
Communication
Submitted
31 Jul 2006
Accepted
19 Oct 2006
First published
06 Nov 2006

Chem. Commun., 2007, 628-630

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A novel gel deformation technique for fabrication of ellipsoidal and discoidal polymeric microparticles

A. Courbaron, O. J. Cayre and V. N. Paunov, Chem. Commun., 2007, 628 DOI: 10.1039/B610994B

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