Functional nanoparticles through π-conjugated polymer self-assembly

LR MacFarlane, H Shaikh… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
The development of π-conjugated polymers has provided a gateway to a variety of new
functional organic materials reminiscent of inorganic semiconductors. Nanoparticles based …

Block copolymer solution self‐assembly: Recent advances, emerging trends, and applications

M Karayianni, S Pispas - Journal of Polymer Science, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The self‐assembly process of block copolymers (BCPs) in solution has been at the focus of
extended scientific research over the past several decades owing to the astonishing …

Emerging applications for living crystallization-driven self-assembly

L MacFarlane, C Zhao, J Cai, H Qiu, I Manners - Chemical Science, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The use of crystallization as a tool to control the self-assembly of polymeric and molecular
amphiphiles in solution is attracting growing attention for the creation of non-spherical …

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 …

Self-assembly of copolymer micelles: higher-level assembly for constructing hierarchical structure

Y Lu, J Lin, L Wang, L Zhang, C Cai - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
In recent years, the self-assembly of copolymer micelles has become an appealing frontier
of supramolecular chemistry as a strategy to construct superstructures with multiple levels of …

Uniform Biodegradable Fiber-Like Micelles and Block Comicelles via “Living” Crystallization-Driven Self-Assembly of Poly(l-lactide) Block Copolymers: The …

Y He, JC Eloi, RL Harniman… - Journal of the …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Fiber-like micelles based on biodegradable and biocompatible polymers exhibit
considerable promise for applications in nanomedicine, but until recently no convenient …

Controlled supramolecular polymerization of π-systems

G Ghosh, P Dey, S Ghosh - Chemical Communications, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Supramolecular polymers, albeit having precise internal order, largely lack precision in the
mesoscopic scale because in most examples supramolecular polymerization occurs under …

Uniform electroactive fibre-like micelle nanowires for organic electronics

X Li, PJ Wolanin, LR MacFarlane, RL Harniman… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Micelles formed by the self-assembly of block copolymers in selective solvents have
attracted widespread attention and have uses in a wide variety of fields, whereas …

Uniform, high aspect ratio fiber-like micelles and block co-micelles with a crystalline π-conjugated polythiophene core by self-seeding

J Qian, X Li, DJ Lunn, J Gwyther… - Journal of the …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Monodisperse fiber-like micelles with a crystalline π-conjugated polythiophene core with
lengths up to ca. 700 nm were successfully prepared from the diblock copolymer poly (3 …

Living Crystallization-Driven Self-Assembly of Linear and V-Shaped Oligo(p-phenylene ethynylene)-Containing Block Copolymers: Architecture Effect of π …

J Nie, X Huang, G Lu, MA Winnik, C Feng - Macromolecules, 2022 - ACS Publications
Diblock copolymers (BCPs) with a π-conjugated block and an appropriate block ratio can
undergo crystallization-driven self-assembly (CDSA) to form fiber-like micelles of uniform …