Self-assembly concepts for multicompartment nanostructures

AH Gröschel, AHE Müller - Nanoscale, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Compartmentalization is ubiquitous to many biological and artificial systems, be it for the
separate storage of incompatible matter or to isolate transport processes. Advancements in …

Thermoresponsive self-assembled polymer colloids in water

S Hocine, MH Li - Soft Matter, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Thermoresponsive polymer colloids made of amphiphilic block copolymers are reviewed in
this paper. The main families of thermoresponsive polymers, including hydrophilic polymers …

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 …

Morphology evolution of polymeric assemblies regulated with fluoro-containing mesogen in polymerization-induced self-assembly

M Huo, Y Zhang, M Zeng, L Liu, Y Wei, J Yuan - Macromolecules, 2017 - ACS Publications
Mesogen-containing amphiphilic block copolymers have shown extremely abundant self-
assembly behaviors because of the liquid crystalline (LC) alignment within the assemblies …

Self-assembly of linear− dendritic diblock copolymers: from nanofibers to polymersomes

J Del Barrio, L Oriol, C Sanchez… - Journal of the …, 2010 - ACS Publications
We report the formation of cylindrical micelles, sheet-like micelles, tubular micelles, as well
as polymer vesicles by a new series of amphiphilic linear− dendritic block-copolymers …

Conformation-directed micelle-to-vesicle transition of cholesterol-decorated polypeptide triggered by oxidation

H Liu, R Wang, J Wei, C Cheng, Y Zheng… - Journal of the …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Hierarchical self-assembly of synthetic polypeptides has attracted increasing interests due to
its protein-mimetic structure and great potential in nanotechnology and biomedical …

Monodisperse Cylindrical Micelles of Controlled Length with a Liquid‐Crystalline Perfluorinated Core by 1D “Self‐Seeding”

X Li, B Jin, Y Gao, DW Hayward… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Precise control over the morphology and dimensions of block copolymer (BCP) micelles has
attracted interest due to the potential of this approach to generate functional nanostructures …

Non-spherical polymersomes: formation and characterization

CK Wong, MH Stenzel, P Thordarson - Chemical Society Reviews, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Polymersomes are self-assembled hollow membrane sacs that are not only able to
encapsulate hydrophobic and/or hydrophilic molecules, but also possess exceptional …

Tunable assembly of amphiphilic rod–coil block copolymers in solution

J Zhang, XF Chen, HB Wei, XH Wan - Chemical Society Reviews, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
This review covers the recent progress in the research field of rod–coil block copolymers
(BCPs) containing rigid rod-like blocks and flexible coil-like blocks. Their assembly …

Reduction-responsive cholesterol-based block copolymer vesicles for drug delivery

L Jia, D Cui, J Bignon, A Di Cicco… - …, 2014 - ACS Publications
We developed a new robust reduction-responsive polymersome based on the amphiphilic
block copolymer PEG-SS-PAChol. The stability and robustness were achieved by the …