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Supramolecular Microcapsules

Meng, Z.; Liu, J.; Yu, Z.; Zhou, H.; Deng, X.; Abell, C.; Scherman, O.A. "Viscoelastic Hydrogel Microfibers Exploiting Cucurbit[8]uril Host–Guest Chemistry and Microfluidics", ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2020, 12, 17929–17935. (read here)

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Lan, Y.; Caciagli, A.; Guidetti, G.; Yu, Z.; Liu, J.; Johansen, V.E.; Kamp, M.; Abell, C.; Vignolini, S.; Scherman, O.A.; Eiser, E. "Unexpected Stability of Aqueous Dispersions of Raspberry-Like Colloids", Nat. Commun., 2018, 9, 3614. (read here)

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Ren, X.; Yu, Z.; Wu, Y.; Liu, J.; Abell, C.; Scherman, O.A. "Cucurbit[7]uril-Based High-Performance Catalytic Microreactors", Nanoscale, 2018, 10, 14835–14839. (read here)

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Wu, Y.; Shah, D.U.; Wang, B.; Liu, J.; Ren, X.; Ramage, M.H.; Scherman, O.A. "Biomimetic Supramolecular Fibers Exhibit Water-Induced Supercontraction", Adv. Mater., 2018, 30, 1707169. (read here)

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Zhang, J .; Liu, J.; Yu, Z.; Chen, S.; Scherman, O.A.; Abell C. "Patterned Arrays of Supramolecular Microcapsules", Adv. Funct. Mat., 2018, 28, 1800550. (read here)

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Liu, J.; Lan, Y.; Yu, Z.Y.; Tan, C.S.Y.; Parker, R.M.; Abell, C.; Scherman, O.A. "Cucurbit[n]uril-Based Microcapsules Self-Assembled within Microfluidic Droplets: A Versatile Approach for Supramolecular Architectures and Materials", Acc. Chem. Res., 2017, 50, 208–217. (read here)

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Groombridge, A.S.; Palma, A.; Parker, R.M.; Abell, C.; Scherman, O.A. "Aqueous Interfacial Gels Assembled from Small Molecule Supramolecular Polymers", Chem. Sci., 2017, 8, 1350–1355. (read here)

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Salmon, A.R.; Parker, R.M.; Groombridge, A.S.; Maestro, A.; Coulston, R.J.; Hegemann, J.; Kierfeld, J.; Scherman, O.A.; Abell, C. "Microcapsule Buckling Triggered by Compression-Induced Interfacial Phase Change", Langmuir, 2016, 32, 10987–10994. (read here)

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Yu, Z.Y.; Zheng, Y.; Parker, R.M.; Lan, Y.; Wu, Y.; Coulston, R.J.; Zhang, J.; Scherman, O.A.; Abell, C. "Microfluidic Droplet-Facilitated Hierarchical Assembly for Dual Cargo Loading and Synergistic Delivery", ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2016, 8, 8811–8820. (read here)

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Salmon, A.R.; Esteban, R.; Taylor, R.W.; Hugall, J.T.; Smith, C.A.; Whyte, G.; Scherman, O.A.; Aizpuru, J.; Abell, C.; Baumberg, J.J. "Monitoring Early-Stage Nanoparticle Assembly in Microdroplets by Optical Spectroscopy and SERS", Small, 2016, 12, 1788–1796. (read here)

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Yu, Z.; Lan, Y.; Parker, R.M.; Zhang, W.; Deng, X.; Scherman, O.A.; Abell, C. "Dual-Responsive Supramolecular Colloidal Microcapsules from Cucurbit[8]uril Molecular Recognition in Microfluidic Droplets", Polym. Chem., 2016, 7, 5996–6002. (read here)

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Parker, R.M.; Zhang, J.; Coulston, R.J.; Smith, C.A.; Salmon, A.R.; Yu, Z.; Scherman, O.A.; Abell, C. "Electrostatically Directed Self-Assembly of Ultrathin Supramolecular Polymer Microcapsules", Adv. Funct. Mater., 2015, 25, 4091–4100. (read here)

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Xu, X.; Tian, F.; Liu, X.; Parker, R.M.; Lan, Y.; Yu, Z.; Scherman, O.A.; Abell, C. "Supracolloidal Architectures Self-Assembled in Microdroplets", Chem. Eur. J., 2015, 21, 15516–15519. (read here)

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Xu, X.; Appel, E.A.; Liu, X.; Parker, R.M.; Scherman, O.A. "Formation of Cucurbit[8]uril-based Supramolecular Hydrogel Beads Using Droplet-Based Microfluidics", Biomacromolecules, 2015, 16, 2743–2749. (read here)

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Yu, Z.; Zhang, J.; Coulston, R.J.; Parker, R.M.; Biedermann, F.; Liu, X.; Scherman, O.A.; Abell, C. "Supramolecular Hydrogel Microcapsules via Cucurbit[8]uril Host-Guest Interactions with Triggered and UV-Controlled Molecular Permeability", Chem. Sci., 2015, 6, 4929–4933. (read here)

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Zheng, Y.; Yu, Z.; Parker, R.M.; Wu, Y.; Abell, C.; Scherman, O.A. "Interfacial Assembly of Dendritic Microcapsules with Host-Guest Chemistry", Nat. Commun., 2014, 5, 5772. (read here)

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Stephenson, G.; Parker, R.M.; Lan, Y.; Zu, Y.; Scherman, O.A.; Abell, C. "Supramolecular Colloidosomes: Fabrication, Characterisation, and Triggered Release of Cargo", Chem. Commun., 2014, 50, 7048–7051. (read here)

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Zhang, J.; Coulston, R.J.; Jones, S.T.; Geng, J.; Scherman, O.A.; Abell, C. "One-Step Fabrication of Supramolecular Microcapsules from Microfluidic Droplets", Science, 2012, 335, 690–694. (read here)

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