The invention discloses a load-controllable hydrophobic
pesticide sustained-release microcapsule and a preparation method and applications thereof. The microcapsule comprises a core material and a
wall material, wherein the
wall material is prepared from hydroxyl
acrylate polymers with carboxyl groups under the crosslinking of
divalent metal ions, and the hydrophobic
pesticide core material is fed into the microcapsule. The preparation method comprises the following steps of: firstly, dissolving a hydrophobic
pesticide and hydroxyl acrylates so as to form a
polymer solution; then, adding water into the
polymer solution, and carrying out high-speed stirring on the obtained mixture so as to form an
emulsion; and finally, adding a
divalent metal ion solution into the
emulsion so as to obtain a granular condensation product, and filtering and
drying the obtained product. The size of the microcapsule can be flexibly controlled at 0.5-50 microns, and the
mass of the core material accounts for 5-70% of the total weight of a sustained-release
capsule. According to the sustained-release
capsule disclosed by the invention, through adjusting parameters such as the compositions of the
wall material, the
solvent types, the ratio of the core material to the wall material, and the like, the effective loading of one or more hydrophobic pesticides can be realized, and the obtained
drug-carrying microcapsule has an
advantage that the
drug-
carrying capacity and the sustained-release performance are controllable, therefore, the preparation method is applicable to the preparation of multiple hydrophobic pesticide sustained-release microcapsules.