Encapsulation is used to deliver materials to specific sites, protect fragile materials from harsh external environments or to delay release of an active compound until a desired time.
Mohammed Al Sharabi and professor Alex Routh have been working on an EPSRC-funded project looking at making novel encapsulated materials. The project was joint with the Universities of Birmingham and Leeds and the latest results examining the encapsulation of Vitamin E have recently been published in Materials Advances.
The paper can be found here.