Synthesis, self-assembly, and photocrosslinking of fullerene-polyglycerol amphiphiles as nanocarriers with controlled transport properties

Ievgen Donskyi; Katharina Achazi; Virginia Wycisk; Christoph Böttcher; Mohsen Adeli

doi:10.1039/c5cc08369a

Synthesis, self-assembly, and photocrosslinking of fullerene-polyglycerol amphiphiles as nanocarriers with controlled transport properties

Chem Commun (Camb). 2016 Mar 21;52(23):4373-6. doi: 10.1039/c5cc08369a.

Authors

Ievgen Donskyi¹, Katharina Achazi¹, Virginia Wycisk¹, Christoph Böttcher², Mohsen Adeli³

Affiliations

¹ Institut für Chemie und Biochemie Organische Chemie, Freie Universität Berlin, Takustr. 3, 14195 Berlin, Germany. aadeli@fu-berlin.de.
² Forschungszentrum für Elektronenmikroskopie and Core Facility BioSupraMol, Institut für Chemie und Biochemie, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
³ Institut für Chemie und Biochemie Organische Chemie, Freie Universität Berlin, Takustr. 3, 14195 Berlin, Germany. aadeli@fu-berlin.de and Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Lorestan University, Khorram Abad, Iran. mohadeli@yahoo.com.

PMID: 26927520
DOI: 10.1039/c5cc08369a

Abstract

In this work, we report a new, simple, gram-scale method for synthesizing water-soluble fullerene-polyglycerol amphiphiles (FPAs) that self-assemble into partially and fully crosslinked nanoclusters with the ability to controllably transport hydrophobic and hydrophilic agents.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Drug Carriers*
Fullerenes / chemistry*
Glycerol / chemistry*
Microscopy, Electron, Scanning
Nanostructures*
Polymers / chemistry*
Spectrophotometry, Ultraviolet

Substances

Drug Carriers
Fullerenes
Polymers
polyglycerol
Glycerol