Temperature sensitive water-in-water emulsions

Abstract

A novel approach for a temperature-sensitive stabilization of water-in-water (W/W) emulsions is described. Specifically, we leveraged the thermal induced conformation change of tailored thermoresponsive block copolymers to reversibly stabilize and destabilize water-water interfaces. In addition, we investigated our approach to reversibly tune the reaction kinetics of enzymes compartmentalized within aqueous two-phase systems.