{"term":{"id":"13848","title":"polymersome","longtitle":"IUPAC Gold Book - polymersome","doi":"10.1351\/goldbook.13848","code":"13848","status":"current","definitions":[{"id":1,"text":"Vesicle with radius ranging from \\(\\pu{50 nm}\\) to greater than \\(\\pu{5 \\upmu m}\\) constructed from an amphiphilic synthetic block copolymer.","notes":{"1":"Most reported polymersomes serve as hosts for an aqueous solution and are useful for the accommodation or temporary trapping of molecules such as drugs, enzymes, and other proteins and peptides in in vivo applications."},"sources":["PAC, 2012, 85, 463. 'Terminology for aggregation and self-assembly in polymer science (IUPAC Recommendations 2013)' on page 483 (https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1351\/PAC-REC-12-03-12)"]}],"altoutputs":{"html":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/13848\/html","xml":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/13848\/xml","plain":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/13848\/plain"},"citation":"Citation: 'polymersome' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351\/goldbook.13848","license":"The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/) for individual terms.","collection":"If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org .","disclaimer":"The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using.","accessed":"2026-06-03T22:38:10+00:00"}}