Chemical Communications 2014-02-25

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

Néstor López Mora, Jesper S Hansen, Yue Gao, Andrew A Ronald, Roxanne Kieltyka, Noah Malmstadt, Alexander Kros

Index: Chem. Commun. (Camb.) 50(16) , 1953-5, (2014)

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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.