Design and preparation of porous polymers

D Wu, F Xu, B Sun, R Fu, H He… - Chemical …, 2012 - ACS Publications
Porosity can be viewed as a profound concept that helps us to understand nature and create
advanced structures. There are some interesting examples in nature, such as hollow …

Hollow polymeric nanostructures—Synthesis, morphology and function

GD Fu, GL Li, KG Neoh, ET Kang - Progress in Polymer Science, 2011 - Elsevier
The development of reliable synthetic routes to polymeric nanostructures of well-defined
composition, morphology and function is of scientific importance and technological interest …

Polymeric supramolecular systems for drug delivery

HJ Yoon, WD Jang - Journal of Materials Chemistry, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
Recent advances in supramolecular chemistry have had significant influence on the
biomedical applications of materials chemistry. Supramolecular systems are based on weak …

How PEO-PPO-PEO triblock polymer micelles control the synthesis of gold nanoparticles: temperature and hydrophobic effects

P Khullar, A Mahal, V Singh, TS Banipal, G Kaur… - Langmuir, 2010 - ACS Publications
Aqueous micellar solutions of F68 (PEO78-PPO30-PEO78) and P103 (PEO17-PPO60-
PEO17) triblock polymers were used to synthesize gold (Au) nanoparticles (NPs) at different …

Recent progress in drug delivery of pluronic P123: pharmaceutical perspectives

LY Zhao, WM Zhang - Journal of Drug Targeting, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
This review focuses on recent investigations that used Pluronic P123 (P123) as
pharmaceutical ingredients in vesicle, micelle, mixed micelle, in situ gel, tablet and …

Heat-induced solubilization of curcumin in kinetically stable pluronic P123 micelles and vesicles: an exploit of slow dynamics of the micellar restructuring processes in …

R Ganguly, A Kunwar, B Dutta, S Kumar… - Colloids and surfaces B …, 2017 - Elsevier
Wide therapeutic potential combined with low cost and negligible toxicity makes curcumin
one of the most sought after drugs in recent times. Its poor aqueous solubility and low …

Tunable ordered nanostructured phases by co-assembly of amphiphilic polyoxometalates and pluronic block copolymers

A Di, J Xu, T Zinn, M Sztucki, W Deng, A Ashok… - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
The assembly of polyoxometalate (POM) metal–oxygen clusters into ordered nanostructures
is attracting a growing interest for catalytic and sensing applications. However, assembly of …

Solubilization of parabens in aqueous Pluronic solutions: investigating the micellar growth and interaction as a function of paraben composition

M Khimani, R Ganguly, VK Aswal, S Nath… - The Journal of …, 2012 - ACS Publications
The influence of methyl paraben (MP) and butyl paraben (BP) on the aggregation
characteristics of Pluronics in an aqueous medium has been investigated by DLS, SANS …

Tuning the shape and size of gold nanoparticles with triblock polymer micelle structure transitions and environments

P Khullar, V Singh, A Mahal, H Kaur… - The Journal of …, 2011 - ACS Publications
Three block polymers, viz., L31, L64, and P123, were used as reducing agents for the
synthesis of gold (Au) nanoparticles (NPs) to determine the effect of their micelle size …

Small molecule-mediated self-assembly behaviors of Pluronic block copolymers in aqueous solution: impact of hydrogen bonding on the morphological transition of …

H Luo, K Jiang, X Liang, H Liu, Y Li - Soft Matter, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
The influence of hydrogen bonding on the self-assembly behaviors of Pluronic P123
micelles is experimentally and theoretically investigated by introducing three small …