Emulsion templated vesicles with symmetric or asymmetric membranes

Yuting Huang; Shin-Hyun Kim; Laura R Arriaga

doi:10.1016/j.cis.2017.07.013

Emulsion templated vesicles with symmetric or asymmetric membranes

Adv Colloid Interface Sci. 2017 Sep:247:413-425. doi: 10.1016/j.cis.2017.07.013. Epub 2017 Jul 17.

Authors

Yuting Huang¹, Shin-Hyun Kim², Laura R Arriaga³

Affiliations

¹ School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
² Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon 305-701, South Korea.
³ Department of Physical Chemistry I, Complutense University, Madrid 28040, Spain. Electronic address: lrarriaga@quim.ucm.es.

PMID: 28802479
DOI: 10.1016/j.cis.2017.07.013

Abstract

Emulsion droplets with well-controlled topologies are used as templates for forming vesicles with either symmetric or asymmetric membranes. This review summarizes the available technology to produce these templates, the strategies and critical parameters involved in the transformation of emulsion droplets into vesicles, and the properties of the generated vesicles, with a special focus on the composition and material distribution of the vesicle membrane. Here, we also address limitations in the field and point to future fundamental and applied research in the area.

Keywords: Asymmetric membranes; Emulsion drops; Liposomes; Microfluidics; Polymersomes; Vesicles.

Publication types

Review