Issue 16, 2014
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Chemical Communications

Preparation of size tunable giant vesicles from cross-linked dextran(ethylene glycol) hydrogels†

Néstor López Mora,a   Jesper S. Hansen,b   Yue Gao,a   Andrew A. Ronald,b   Roxanne Kieltyka,a   Noah Malmstadt*b  and  Alexander Kros*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Leiden University, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
E-mail: a.kros@chem.leidenuniv.nl

b Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90007, USA
E-mail: malmstad@usc.edu

Abstract

We present a novel chemically cross-linked dextran–poly(ethylene glycol) hydrogel substrate for the preparation of dense vesicle suspensions under physiological ionic strength conditions. These vesicles can be easily diluted for individual study. Modulating the degree of cross-linking within the hydrogel network results in tuning of the vesicle size distribution.

Graphical abstract: Preparation of size tunable giant vesicles from cross-linked dextran(ethylene glycol) hydrogels

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C3CC49144G
Article type
Communication
Submitted
01 Dec 2013
Accepted
16 Dec 2013
First published
18 Dec 2013

Chem. Commun., 2014,50, 1953-1955

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Preparation of size tunable giant vesicles from cross-linked dextran(ethylene glycol) hydrogels

N. López Mora, J. S. Hansen, Y. Gao, A. A. Ronald, R. Kieltyka, N. Malmstadt and A. Kros, Chem. Commun., 2014, 50, 1953 DOI: 10.1039/C3CC49144G

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