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Inside Back Cover: Electrostatic Assembly/Disassembly of Nanoscaled Colloidosomes for Light‐Triggered Cargo Release (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 23/2015)
Author(s) -
Li Song,
Moosa Basem A.,
Croissant Jonas G.,
Khashab Niveen M.
Publication year - 2015
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.201504211
Subject(s) - nanotechnology , nanoparticle , materials science , nanoreactor , nanoscopic scale , drug delivery , chemistry
Electrostatically assembled colloidosomes are promising hollow carriers for the encapsulation and release of large cargos on demand. In their Communication on page 6804 ff., N. Khashab et al. describe nanoscale colloidosomes that are composed of oppositely charged organosilica nanoparticles (NPs). Upon light irradiation, a photoreaction of the organosilica NPs can reverse the charges of the NPs, leading to disassembly of the capsules and light‐triggered release of the payload.