Preparation of membrane-mimicking lamellar structures by molecular confinement of hybrid nanocomposites

Abstract

Hybrid nanocomposites are multiphase systems with a wide range of applications. Some nanocomposites are water insoluble thereby preventing several applications.

Thus, we prepared telechelic PEO with glucose molecules to form water-soluble lamellar nanostructures by co-assembly with metallacarborane. The lamellas formed by PEO/metallacarborane decorated by glucose molecules on the surface can serve as delivery agents for boron clusters and benzoxaboroles.

Keywords

• nanocomposites
• membrane-mimicking structures
• telechelic PEO
• block-copolymers
• glucose
• metallacarborane
• complexes
• chemistry
• cosan
• nanoparticles
• fluorescence
• composite
• bilayers