One-step fabrication of colloidosomes through in situself-assembly of micron-sized primary particles

Abstract

Colloidosomes of uniform polymer particles were achieved through a simple one-step protocol by the in situ self-assembly of primary particles in the precipitation polymerization of styrene and a crosslinker monomer in a H₂O–EtOH mixture in the presence of ethyl benzene as the template. The primary particles migrate to the droplet template upon their formation and self-organized therein.