Research Field 5

Schulz, M., et al. Macromolecular Rapid Communications 2015,36 (23), 2031-2041, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/marc.201500344.

Vesicles can be individually fabricated from naturally occurring lipid or synthetic block copolymer molecules via self-assembly in aqueous solutions. Upon merging the best properties of lipo- and polymersomal membranes, hybrid lipid/polymer vesicles represent a new scaffold for medical applications combining, e.g., combining the biocompatibility of liposomes with the high thermal and mechanical stability and functional variability of polymersomes within a single vesicle type. Reproduced by permission. Copyright © 2015 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.

Olubummo, A., et al. ACS Nano 2012,6 (10), 8713–8727, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/nn3023602.

In this paper, we demonstrate the preparation and characterization of polymer-functionalized CdSe NPs, tuning their interaction with mixed lipid/polymer membranes from 1, 2-dipalmitoyl-sn-glycero-3-phophocholine (DPPC) and PIB₈₇-b-PEO₁₇ block copolymer by varying their surface-hydrophobicity. Reproduced with permission. Copyright 2012©, American Chemical Society.