Sealing porous nanovesicles--solutions inspired by primordial biosystems.
Microcapsules designed for slow drug release have preferably some porosity. There are, however, applications in which a hermetical sealing of the microcapsules is desired. Sealing is not a trivial problem and could be necessary to durably encapsulate toxic compounds which cannot be eliminated from the body, or to encapsulate harmful substances stored in the atmosphere. Nature may have one solution: Nanobacteria have developed surprisingly simple mechanisms to access and use primal energies, and to survive arid periods by sealing their surface.
Andrei P
AP
Sommer
Attila E
AE
Pavláth
D018407:Bacterial Physiological Phenomena; D002214:Capsules; D003692:Delayed-Action Preparations; D016503:Drug Delivery Systems; D036103:Nanotechnology / Q000379:methods*; D043942:Nanotubes; D016062:Porosity
D002214:Capsules; D003692:Delayed-Action Preparations