Extraction of cage-like sporopollenin exine capsules from dandelion pollen grains

• Main Authors: Fan, Tengfei, Park, Jae Hyeon, Pham, Quynh Anh, Tan, Ee-Lin, Mundargi, Raghavendra. C., Potroz, Michael G., Jung, Haram, Cho, Nam-Joon
• Other Authors: School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Sporopollenin Exine Capsules (SECs); Dandelion Pollen Grains
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/87356; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/45388
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Pollen-based microcapsules such as hollow sporopollenin exine capsules (SECs) have emerged as excellent drug delivery and microencapsulation vehicles. To date, SECs have been extracted primarily from a wide range of natural pollen species possessing largely spherical geometries and uniform surface f...