Capable Cross-links: Polymersomes Reinforced with Catalytically Active Metal鈥揕igand Bonds

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• 作者：Ian M. Henderson ; Hope A. Quintana ; Julio A. Martinez ; Walter F. Paxton
• 刊名：Chemistry of Materials
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：July 14, 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：27
• 期：13
• 页码：4808-4813
• 全文大小：352K
• ISSN：1520-5002

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Polymersomes, hollow spherical nano-to-microscale polymer assemblies, have increasingly become important constructs in the development of biomimetic materials that expand the library of functional and robust analogs to lipid-based vesicles. As compared to liposomes, polymersomes possess superior physical properties and the nearly unlimited potential for synthetic fine-tuning. Herein we improve on the physical properties of these polymer vesicles by introducing platinum-based metal鈥搇igand cross-links into the hydrophobic core, which gave the vesicles demonstrated resistance to destabilization by surfactants over un-cross-linked polymersomes. The formation of cross-links was capable of being selectively reversed by the addition of phosphines. In addition, the Pt(0) cross-links retained their catalytic activity for the hydrosilylation of alkenes.