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Inside Back Cover: Breathing Polymersomes: CO 2 ‐Tuning Membrane Permeability for Size‐Selective Release, Separation, and Reaction (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 19/2013)
Author(s) -
Yan Qiang,
Wang Jianbo,
Yin Yingwu,
Yuan Jinying
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201302126
Subject(s) - polymersome , nanoreactor , membrane , copolymer , materials science , permeability (electromagnetism) , breathing , cover (algebra) , chemical engineering , nanotechnology , chemistry , nanoparticle , polymer , amphiphile , composite material , anesthesia , engineering , mechanical engineering , biochemistry , medicine
Breathing polymersomes can act as CO 2 ‐tuned size‐selective nanoseparators and nanoreactors. In their Communication on page 5070 ff. , J. Y. Yuan et al. use CO 2 ‐sensitive block copolymers to build biomimetic sacs in which the membrane pores can be tuned by controlling CO 2 levels.