Compound-fluidic electrospray: An efficient method for the fabrication of microcapsules with multicompartment structure |
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Authors: | HongYan Chen Yong Zhao Lei Jiang |
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Institution: | Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China |
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Abstract: | Microcapsules with multiple compartments are of significant importance in many applications such as smart drug delivery, microreactor, complicated sensor, and so on. Here we report a novel com-pound-fluidic electrospray method that could fabricate multicompartment microcapsules in a single step. The as-prepared microcapsules have multiple compartments inside. The compartments are separated from each other by inner walls made from shell materials, and different content can be in-dependently loaded in each of them without any contact. We assemble a hierarchical compound nozzle by inserting certain numbers of metallic inner capillaries separately into a blunt metal needle. The par-ticular configuration of the compound nozzle induces a completely and independently envelope of core fluids by shell fluid, as a result of which mulicomponent microcapsules with multicompartment struc-ture can be obtained. And also, the number of inner compartments and the corresponding encapsu-lated components can be controlled by rationally designing the configuration of the compound nozzle. This general method can be readily extended to many other functional materials, especially for the ef-fective encapsulation of active ingredients, such as sensitive and reactive materials. |
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Keywords: | microcapsule electrospray multicompartment multicomponent micro/nanomaterial |
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