https://doi.org/10.1351/goldbook.14341
Polymerization inside the bilayer of a vesicle leading to formation of polymer inside the bilayer.
Notes:
- The bilayer may contain polymerizable and non-polymerizable molecules.
- Usually phase separation occurs leading to entities with inhomogeneously distributed polymer (e.g., entities that contain a latex particle inside the vesicle’s bilayer).
- The morphology of such entities is called "parachute" morphology, owing to similarity of their shape to the shape of parachute canopy.
- In the case of reactive copolymerizing surfactants (i.e., surfmers) hollow spherical entities can sometimes be obtained with a homogeneous distribution of polymer in the bilayer.