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SOFT MATTER
卷 15, 期 26, 页码 5287-5295出版社
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c9sm00708c
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London
- Seventh Framework Programme of the European Commission [618333]
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) [EP/L020564/1]
- EPSRC [EP/L020564/1] Funding Source: UKRI
We report the formation of polymeric and nanocomposite capsules via droplet solvent extraction, focusing on the interplay between solvent exchange and removal, demixing and directional solidification kinetics. We investigate a model system of sodium poly(styrene sulfonate), NaPSS and silica nanoparticles in aqueous solution, whose phase behaviour is experimentally measured, and examine a series of selective extraction solvents (toluene, butyl acetate, ethyl acetate and methyl ethyl ketone), ranging from 0.04 to 11% v/v water solubility. Tuning the rate of solvent exchange is shown to provide an effective means of decoupling demixing and solidification timescales, and thereby tunes the internal microstructure of the capsule, including hollow, microporous, core-shell, and bicontinuous morphologies. In turn, these determine the capsule dissolution mechanism and kinetics, ranging from single to pulsed release profiles of nanoparticle clusters (at intermediate solubilities), to minimal dissolution (at either extremes). These findings provide facile design and assembly strategies for functional capsules with time-varying release profiles.
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