Programmable microcapsules from self-immolative polymers

AP Esser-Kahn, NR Sottos, SR White…

Index: Esser-Kahn, Aaron P.; Sottos, Nancy R.; White, Scott R.; Moore, Jeffrey S. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2010 , vol. 132, # 30 p. 10266 - 10268

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Abstract

For the autonomous repair of damaged materials, microcapsules are needed that release their contents in response to a variety of physical and chemical phenomena, not just by direct mechanical rupture. Herein we report a general route to programmable microcapsules. This method creates core− shell microcapsules with polymeric shell walls composed of self-immolative polymer networks. The polymers in these networks undergo ...