ACS Macro Letters
ACS Macro Letters
5 years ago

Capsules: Their Past and Opportunities for Their Future

Capsules: Their Past and Opportunities for Their Future
Esther Amstad
Capsules are often used as mobile delivery vehicles, for example, in pharmacy, food, and cosmetics, or as stationary containers that are embedded in a matrix to functionalize materials. Progress achieved in polymer chemistry opened up new possibilities to tune the properties of capsules with a much higher precision, thereby allowing the fabrication of advanced materials. This viewpoint summarizes recent developments in the design of functional capsules and highlights some of the challenges involved in the use of capsules to functionalize existing and to build new materials.

Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsmacrolett.7b00472

DOI: 10.1021/acsmacrolett.7b00472

You might also like
Discover & Discuss Important Research

Keeping up-to-date with research can feel impossible, with papers being published faster than you'll ever be able to read them. That's where Researcher comes in: we're simplifying discovery and making important discussions happen. With over 19,000 sources, including peer-reviewed journals, preprints, blogs, universities, podcasts and Live events across 10 research areas, you'll never miss what's important to you. It's like social media, but better. Oh, and we should mention - it's free.

  • Download from Google Play
  • Download from App Store
  • Download from AppInChina

Researcher displays publicly available abstracts and doesn’t host any full article content. If the content is open access, we will direct clicks from the abstracts to the publisher website and display the PDF copy on our platform. Clicks to view the full text will be directed to the publisher website, where only users with subscriptions or access through their institution are able to view the full article.