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Segregation of Coronal Chains in Micelles Formed by Supramolecular Interactions

✍ Scribed by Jean-François Gohy; Eric Khousakoun; Nicolas Willet; Sunil K. Varshney; Robert Jérôme

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2004
Tongue
English
Weight
173 KB
Volume
25
Category
Article
ISSN
1022-1336

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Abstract

Summary: Spherical micelles have been formed by mixing, in DMF, a poly(styrene)‐block‐poly(2‐vinylpyridine)‐block‐poly(ethylene oxide) (PS‐block‐P2VP‐block‐PEO) triblock copolymer with either poly(acrylic acid) (PAA) or a tapered triblock copolymer consisting of a PAA central block and PEO macromonomer‐based outer blocks. Noncovalent interactions between PAA and P2VP result in the micellar core while the outer corona contains both PS and PEO chains. Segregation of the coronal chains is observed when the tapered copolymer is used.

Inclusion of comb‐like chains with short PEO teeth in the corona triggers the nanophase segregation of PS and PEO as illustrated here (PS = polystyrene; PEO = poly(ethylene oxide)).

imageInclusion of comb‐like chains with short PEO teeth in the corona triggers the nanophase segregation of PS and PEO as illustrated here (PS = polystyrene; PEO = poly(ethylene oxide)).

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