Buckling and Interfacial Deformation of Fluorescent Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) Microgel Capsules
(2023) In ACS Nano 17(8). p.7257-7271- Abstract
Hollow microgels are fascinating model systems at the crossover between polymer vesicles, emulsions, and colloids as they deform, interpenetrate, and eventually shrink at higher volume fraction or when subjected to an external stress. Here, we introduce a system consisting of microgels with a micrometer-sized cavity enabling a straightforward characterization in situ using fluorescence microscopy techniques. Similarly to elastic capsules, these systems are found to reversibly buckle above a critical osmotic pressure, conversely to smaller hollow microgels, which were previously reported to deswell at high volume fraction. Simulations performed on monomer-resolved in silico hollow microgels confirm the buckling transition and show that... (More)
Hollow microgels are fascinating model systems at the crossover between polymer vesicles, emulsions, and colloids as they deform, interpenetrate, and eventually shrink at higher volume fraction or when subjected to an external stress. Here, we introduce a system consisting of microgels with a micrometer-sized cavity enabling a straightforward characterization in situ using fluorescence microscopy techniques. Similarly to elastic capsules, these systems are found to reversibly buckle above a critical osmotic pressure, conversely to smaller hollow microgels, which were previously reported to deswell at high volume fraction. Simulations performed on monomer-resolved in silico hollow microgels confirm the buckling transition and show that the presented microgels can be described with a thin shell model theory. When brought to an interface, these microgels, that we define as microgel capsules, strongly deform and we thus propose to utilize them to locally probe interfacial properties within a theoretical framework adapted from the Johnson-Kendall-Roberts (JKR) theory. Besides their capability to sense their environment and to address fundamental questions on the elasticity and permeability of microgel systems, microgel capsules can be further envisioned as model systems mimicking anisotropic responsive biological systems such as red blood and epithelial cells thanks to the possibility offered by microgels to be synthesized with custom-designed properties.
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- author
- Hagemans, Fabian ; Camerin, Fabrizio LU ; Hazra, Nabanita LU ; Lammertz, Janik ; Dux, Frédéric ; Del Monte, Giovanni ; Laukkanen, Olli-Ville ; Crassous, Jérôme J. ; Zaccarelli, Emanuela and Richtering, Walter
- publishing date
- 2023-04-25
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- keywords
- buckling, capsules, hollow microgels, in silico synthesis, interfaces, JKR theory
- in
- ACS Nano
- volume
- 17
- issue
- 8
- pages
- 15 pages
- publisher
- The American Chemical Society (ACS)
- external identifiers
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- pmid:37053566
- scopus:85153802816
- ISSN
- 1936-0851
- DOI
- 10.1021/acsnano.2c10164
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- no
- additional info
- Publisher Copyright: © 2023 American Chemical Society.
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- 855f579e-b385-431a-b6b9-195fa54b3193
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- 2024-02-22 14:06:06
- date last changed
- 2024-04-22 00:05:44
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