Laser-induced fast fusion of gold nanoparticle-modified polyelectrolyte microcapsules

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Publication Date 2014-12-09
DOI 10.1039/C4CP05231E
Impact Factor 3.676
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Yingjie Wu, Johannes Frueh, Tieyan Si, Helmuth Möhwald, Qiang He


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Abstract

In this study we investigated the effect of laser-induced membrane fusion of polyelectrolyte multilayer (PEM) based microcapsules bearing surface-attached gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) in aqueous media. We demonstrate that a dense coating of the capsules with AuNPs leads to enhanced light absorption, causing an increase of local temperature. This enhances the migration of polyelectrolytes within the PEMs and thus enables a complete fusion of two or more capsules. The encapsulated substances can achieve complete merging upon short-term laser irradiation (30 s, 30 mW @ 650 nm). The whole fusion process is followed by optical microscopy and scanning electron microscopy. In control experiments, microcapsules without AuNPs do not show a significant capsule fusion upon irradiation. It was also found that the duration of capsule fusion is affected by the density of AuNPs on the shell – the higher the density of AuNPs the shorter the fusion time. All these findings confirm that laser-induced microcapsule fusion is a new type of membrane fusion. This effect helps to study the interior exchange reactions of functional microcapsules, micro-reactors and drug transport across multilayers.

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