Issue 12, 2011
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Soft Matter

Nonspherical polysaccharide vesicles and their shape and volume regulation via osmotically sensitive channels†

Ying Chen,a   Hanqing Qian,a   Xianchuang Zheng,a   Xiqun Jiang,*a   Hyuk Yub  and  Leyang Zhanga  

* Corresponding authors

a Laboratory of Mesoscopic Chemistry and Department of Polymer Science & Engineering, College of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, P. R. China
E-mail: jiangx@nju.edu.cn
Fax: (+86) 25-8331-7761

b Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USA

Abstract

Based on the irregularly structured hydrogen bonded interpolymer complexes and their assembly, we obtained ellipsoidal polysaccharide vesicles. These vesicles not only exhibit uniform shape, but also regulate their shape and volume by transport channels like living cells.

Graphical abstract: Nonspherical polysaccharide vesicles and their shape and volume regulation via osmotically sensitive channels

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C0SM01479F
Article type
Communication
Submitted
13 Dec 2010
Accepted
14 Apr 2011
First published
21 Apr 2011

Soft Matter, 2011,7, 5519-5523

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Nonspherical polysaccharide vesicles and their shape and volume regulation via osmotically sensitive channels

Y. Chen, H. Qian, X. Zheng, X. Jiang, H. Yu and L. Zhang, Soft Matter, 2011, 7, 5519 DOI: 10.1039/C0SM01479F

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