Chemical communications

Shell-crosslinked nanostructures from amphiphilic AB and ABA block copolymers of styrene-alt-(maleic anhydride) and styrene: polymerization, assembly and …

S Harrisson, KL Wooley

Index: Harrisson, Simon; Wooley, Karen L. Chemical Communications, 2005 , # 26 p. 3259 - 3261

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Citation Number: 57

Abstract

Armes and coworkers have developed an approach towards reducing the synthetic complexity of copolymer synthesis and micelle formation, 2,6,7 whereby the direct production of micelles from block copolymers was accomplished by aqueous atom transfer radical polymerization of monomer units having pH- and thermally-tunable degrees of hydrophilicity. In another approach, the assembly of polymer mixtures into non-covalently crosslinked micelles has ...