One-pot colloidal chemistry route to homogeneous and doped colloidosomes.
Colloidosomes are usually produced from a series of building blocks with different sizes ranging from several nanometers to micrometers or various shapes, such as particles, microrods, and quantum dots. Colloidosomes can possess a variety of characteristics in terms of photics, electrology, mechanical strength, and selective permeability, derived from their building blocks. However, poor mechanical stability and complicated synthesis processes have limited the applications of colloidosomes. Here, we report a new one-pot colloidal chemistry route to synthesize phenol formaldehyde resin (PFR), Ag@PFR, and Au@PFR colloidosomes with high yields. The method can be modified to synthesize different kinds of doped colloidosomes with different components, which will provide a new approach to design colloidosomes with different functions.
Division of Nanomaterials and Chemistry, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, Department of Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, P.R. China.
Xue-Wei
XW
Xu
Xi-Mo
XM
Zhang
Chao
C
Liu
Ying-Long
YL
Yang
Jian-Wei
JW
Liu
Huai-Ping
HP
Cong
Chun-Hua
CH
Dong
Xi-Feng
XF
Ren
Shu-Hong
SH
Yu