Fully amorphous atactic and isotactic block copolymers and their self-assembly into nano- and microscopic vesicles
Riccardo Wehr, Elena C. dos Santos, Moritz S. Muthwill, Vittoria Chimisso, Jens Gaitzsch, Wolfgang Meier
Abstract
-PG to form microreactors was elucidated by reconstituting the membrane protein OmpF in the GUV membrane by microfluidics and performing an enzyme reaction inside its lumen. The system presented here serves as platform to design versatile vesicles with flexible membranes composed of atactic or isotactic BCPs. Hence, they allow for the introduction of chirality into nano- or microreactors which is a yet unstudied field and could enable special biotechonological applications.
Topics & Concepts
CopolymerTacticityAmorphous solidNano-VesicleMaterials scienceSelf-assemblyNanotechnologyChemical engineeringChemistryPolymerCrystallographyComposite materialMembranePolymerizationEngineeringBiochemistryAdvanced Polymer Synthesis and CharacterizationDendrimers and Hyperbranched PolymersBlock Copolymer Self-Assembly