Size-controlled synthesis of polymer hollow nanoparticles using emulsion templates prepared by tandem acoustic emulsification. 2019

Miharu Koshino, and Yukihide Shiraishi, and Mahito Atobe
Graduate School of Environment and Information Sciences, Yokohama National University, Yokohama 240-8501, Japan.

We have developed a new emulsion template method for the synthesis of poly(methylmethacrylate) (PMMA) hollow nanoparticles with different sizes. This synthetic method involves sequential ultrasonic irradiation (20 kHz → 500 kHz → 1.6 MHz → 2.4 MHz → 5.0 MHz) for acoustic emulsification of a water-insoluble fluorous solvent such as perfluoromethylcyclohexane (PFMCH) in an aqueous medium, followed by monomer (methylmethacrylate (MMA)) adsorption on the surface of the PFMCH emulsion droplets and photopolymerization of the adsorbed MMA in the obtained emulsion solution. Since the size of the PFMCH droplet templates can be tuned according to the number of steps of tandem acoustic emulsification, the obtained PMMA particle size can also be controlled. The subsequent removal of the core fluorous solvent by the heat treatment yielded size-controlled PMMA hollow nanoparticles and monodisperse PMMA hollow nanoparticles of different sizes. Furthermore, we confirmed that the substances could go in or go out of the hollow particles through the shells. Such a nice permeability is important for applications such as nanoreactors and drug delivery systems.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries

Related Publications

Miharu Koshino, and Yukihide Shiraishi, and Mahito Atobe
April 2010, Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids,
Miharu Koshino, and Yukihide Shiraishi, and Mahito Atobe
October 2005, Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English),
Miharu Koshino, and Yukihide Shiraishi, and Mahito Atobe
February 2008, Nature nanotechnology,
Miharu Koshino, and Yukihide Shiraishi, and Mahito Atobe
June 2020, Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids,
Miharu Koshino, and Yukihide Shiraishi, and Mahito Atobe
October 2002, Journal of colloid and interface science,
Miharu Koshino, and Yukihide Shiraishi, and Mahito Atobe
February 2014, Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany),
Miharu Koshino, and Yukihide Shiraishi, and Mahito Atobe
December 2014, Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English),
Copied contents to your clipboard!