Journal article
Particle Engineering via Supramolecular Assembly of Macroscopic Hydrophobic Building Blocks
CJ Kim, E Goudeli, F Ercole, Y Ju, Y Gu, W Xu, JF Quinn, F Caruso
Angewandte Chemie International Edition | WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH | Published : 2024
Abstract
Tailoring the hydrophobicity of supramolecular assembly building blocks enables the fabrication of well-defined functional materials. However, the selection of building blocks used in the assembly of metal–phenolic networks (MPNs), an emerging supramolecular assembly platform for particle engineering, has been essentially limited to hydrophilic molecules. Herein, we synthesized and applied biscatechol-functionalized hydrophobic polymers (poly(methyl acrylate) (PMA) and poly(butyl acrylate) (PBA)) as building blocks to engineer MPN particle systems (particles and capsules). Our method allowed control over the shell thickness (e.g., between 10 and 21 nm), stiffness (e.g., from 10 to 126 mN m−1..
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Funding Acknowledgements
This research was funded by the Australian Research Council (ARC) through the Discovery Project (DP200100713) scheme. F.C. acknowledges the award of a National Health and Medical Research Council Leadership Fellowship (GNT2016732). J.F.Q. acknowledges receipt of a Future Fellowship (FT170100144) from the ARC. Y.J. acknowledges the support received through the ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DE230101542) scheme. This work was performed in part at the Materials Characterisation and Fabrication Platform (MCFP) at The University of Melbourne, the Ian Holmes Imaging Centre at the Bio21 Institute, and the Victorian Node of the Australian National Fabrication Facility (ANFF). Open Access publishing facilitated by The University of Melbourne, as part of the Wiley - The University of Melbourne agreement via the Council of Australian University Librarians.