Production of crosslinked structures of colloidal dimensions, e.g. hollow spheres or films, useful as lubricants, drug delivery systems, contrast agents, therapy vectors, chromatograhic media, magnetic data storage coatings, etc.

摘要

Production of crosslinked structures of colloidal dimensions and defined shape comprises introducing spherically symmetric polymerisable molecules into a spatially structured template in which three-dimensional structures can be formed by self-organisation, and fixing the molecules in the template by polymerisation to form a polymer network that at least partially takes on the shape and size of the template and retains this shape and size when the template is removed