Polymer nanocapsules

摘要

Hollow polymer particles with dimensions in the sub- micrometer region possess great potential for encapsulation of large quantities of and large sized guest molecules into their empty core domains. Conventional molecular chem- istry requires costly synthetic procedures and only in special cases allows such particles to be prepared with exact control over their size and morphology. Therefore various self- assembly and templating approaches have been developed which will be briefly introduced in this article.