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SOFT MATTER
Volume 16, Issue 13, Pages 3234-3244Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c9sm02165e
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- College of Staten Island and City University of New York
- PRF [54235-DNI6]
- NSF [1506937, 1750694]
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Materials Research [1750694] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Materials Research
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1506937] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Vesicles composed of diblock copolymers, or polymersomes, have proven to possess numerous applications ranging from drug delivery to catalytically driven nano-motors. The shape of a polymersome can be responsive to external stimuli, such as light or solvent. Molecular dynamics simulations reveal that the shape change upon the contraction of the inner volume of a polymersome vesicle occurs in two separate regimes-a stretching regime and a bending regime. The barrier is shown to be dependent on the solvent environment. These results suggest that tailoring the bending modulus of polymer membranes can be used as a design methodology to engineer new stimuli-responsive vesicles.
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