“…Mater. 2011, 23, 599-623 spiropyran and spirooxazine [ 160 ] ) (ii) macromolecules (oligomers to polymers) (poly(propylene glycol dimethylacrylate), [ 41 ] polypropylene oxide (PPO), [ 129 , 130 ] poly(acrylic acid), [ 133 ] phenolic oligomer or resol, [ 161 , 162 ] (iii) functional surfactants (polymerizable diacetylene surfactant, [ 163 ] alkyloligosiloxane precursors, [ 164 ] block copolymers silylated [ 165 ] ), and (iv) organosilanes bearing a methyl, [ 106 , 107 , 112 , 146 , 166 ] mercapto, [ 49 , 113 , 167 ] amino, [ 49 , 50 ] phenyl, [ 49 ] fl uoro, [ 166 ] vinyl, [ 166 ] methacrylate, [ 166 ] fl uorescein [ 50 , 168 ] group or bridged silsesquioxanes (phenyl-bridged, [ 169 , 170 ] butylenebridged, [ 169 ] and ethyl-bridged. [ 43 , 170 , 171 ] It is worth mentioning that very recently living cells were also encapsulated in mesostructured microspheres.…”