Block copolymer nanostructures

T Smart, H Lomas, M Massignani, MV Flores-Merino… - Nano Today, 2008 - Elsevier
One of the most important classes of synthetic systems for creating self-assembled
nanostructures is amphiphilic block copolymers. By controlling the architecture of individual …

Block copolymer systems: from single chain to self-assembled nanostructures

C Giacomelli, V Schmidt, K Aissou, R Borsali - Langmuir, 2010 - ACS Publications
Recent advances in the field of macromolecular engineering applied to the fabrication of
nanostructured materials using block copolymer chains as elementary building blocks are …

Amphiphilic block copolymers: their structures, and self-assembly to polymeric micelles and polymersomes as drug delivery vehicles

K Kuperkar, D Patel, LI Atanase, P Bahadur - Polymers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Self-assembly of amphiphilic block copolymers display a multiplicity of nanoscale periodic
patterns proposed as a dominant tool for the 'bottom-up'fabrication of nanomaterials with …

50th Anniversary Perspective: Functional Nanoparticles from the Solution Self-Assembly of Block Copolymers

U Tritschler, S Pearce, J Gwyther, GR Whittell… - …, 2017 - ACS Publications
This Perspective outlines recent advances concerning the formation and potential uses of
block copolymer micelles, a class of soft-matter-based nanoparticles of growing importance …

Toward 'smart'nano-objects by self-assembly of block copolymers in solution

J Rodriguez-Hernandez, F Chécot, Y Gnanou… - Progress in polymer …, 2005 - Elsevier
In recent years, the synthesis and analysis of novel copolymer-based nanomaterials in
solution have been extensively pursued. The interest in such structures lies in the fact that …

Strategies for controlling intra-and intermicellar packing in block copolymer solutions: illustrating the flexibility of the self-assembly toolbox.

TL Lodge, J Bang, Z Li, MA Hillmyer… - Faraday …, 2005 - europepmc.org
Block copolymers constitute a class of self-assembling macromolecules that offer
remarkable flexibility for controlling nanostructure, both in discrete objects and in bulk …

New micellar morphologies from amphiphilic block copolymers: disks, toroids and bicontinuous micelles

SJ Holder, NAJM Sommerdijk - Polymer Chemistry, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
Amphiphilic AB and ABA block copolymers have been demonstrated to form a variety of self-
assembled aggregate structures in dilute solutions where the solvent preferentially solvates …

Selective localization of preformed nanoparticles in morphologically controllable block copolymer aggregates in solution

Y Mai, A Eisenberg - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2012 - ACS Publications
The development of nanodevices currently requires the formation of morphologically
controlled or highly ordered arrays of metal, semiconducting, or magnetic nanoparticles. In …

Self-assembly of amphiphilic block copolymers in selective solvents

M Karayianni, S Pispas - Fluorescence studies of polymer containing …, 2016 - Springer
For the last decades, amphiphilic block copolymers have been at the focus of extensive
scientific interest, due to their unique properties and numerous potential applications. Their …

Emerging trends in solution self-assembly of block copolymers

Z Deng, S Liu - Polymer, 2020 - Elsevier
Since the foundation of macromolecular science by Staudinger, advances in polymer
chemistry have unveiled enormous avenues for controlling chemical structures at the …