Micellar Structures of Hydrophilic/Lipophilic and Hydrophilic/Fluorophilic Poly(2-oxazoline) Diblock Copolymers in Water
✍ Scribed by Ruzha Ivanova; Thomas Komenda; Tune B. Bonné; Karin Lüdtke; Kell Mortensen; P. Klaus Pranzas; Rainer Jordan; Christine M. Papadakis
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 328 KB
- Volume
- 209
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1022-1352
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
Amphiphilic poly(2‐alkyl‐2‐oxazoline) diblock copolymers of 2‐methyl‐2‐oxazoline (MOx) building the hydrophilic block and either 2‐nonyl‐2‐oxazoline (NOx) for the hydrophobic or 2‐(1H,1H′,2H,2H′‐perfluorohexyl)‐2‐oxazoline (FOx) for the fluorophilic block were synthesized by sequential living cationic polymerization. The polymer amphiphiles form core/shell micelles in aqueous solution as evidenced using small‐angle neutron scattering (SANS). Whereas the diblock copolymer micelles with a hydrophobic NOx~n~ block are spherical, the micelles with the fluorophilic FOx~n~ are slightly elongated, as observed by SANS and TEM. In water, the micelles with fluorophilic and lipophilic cores do not mix, but coexist.
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