Method for manufacturing microcapsules, and microcapsule, electrophoretic device and electric apparatus

A method of manufacturing microcapsules, individual microcapsules including a capsule shell and an electrophoretic dispersion liquid encapsulated by the capsule body, the capsule shell being made of an organic polymer, the electrophoretic dispersion liquid including electrophoretic particles in a dispersion medium, the method comprising:

• forming droplets of the electrophoretic dispersion liquid by dispersing the electrophoretic dispersion liquid in a polar dispersion medium;
• and
• forming an entirety of each capsule shell as a result of copolymerizing a polymerizable surfactant and a comonomer in the presence of a polymerization initiator by mixing the polymerizable surfactant, the comonomer, and the polymerization initiator with the polar dispersion medium, the polymerizable surfactant having a hydrophilic group, a hydrophobic group and a polymerizable group, the comonomer being polymerizable with the polymerizable surfactant, so as to coat the droplets with the polymerizable surfactant and the comonomer and inducing a polymerization reaction to form the organic polymer,
• thereby obtaining the microcapsules.