| 초록 |
Polymer nanocapsules offer a wide range of applications including drug delivery. We recently reported a novel approach to the synthesis of polymer nanocapsules using a rigid, disk-shaped monomer with multiple polymerizable groups at the periphery. Without needs for any pre-organized structures or templates, and core-removal, this method directly produces polymer nanocapsules with a highly stable structure and relatively narrow size distribution. In particular, polymer nanocapsules made of a host molecule with a cavity allows facile tailoring of their surface properties in a noncovalent manner by virtue of the unique recognition properties of the accessible molecular cavities on the surface. The easy synthesis and unique ability to tailor surface properties in a noncovalent manner make the polymer capsules potentially useful in many applications including targeted delivery. This strategy can be extended to synthesize two-demensional polymers with a single monomer thickness. |
