Cargo shuttling by electrochemical switching of core-shell microgels obtained by a facile one-shot polymerization.

ABSTRACT: Controlling and understanding the electrochemical properties of electroactive polymeric colloids is a highly topical but still a rather unexplored field of research. This is especially true when considering more complex particle architectures like stimuli-responsive microgels, which would entail different kinetic constraints for charge transport within one particle. We synthesize and electrochemically address dual stimuli responsive core-shell microgels, where the temperature-responsiveness modulates not only the internal structure, but also the microgel electroactivity both on an internal and on a global scale. In detail, a facile one-step precipitation polymerization results in architecturally advanced poly(N-isopropylacrylamide-co-vinylferrocene) P(NIPAM-co-VFc) mic

SUBMITTER: Mergel O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6371888 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature