Single‐Step Expeditious Synthesis of Diblock Copolymers with Different Morphologies by Lewis Pair Polymerization‐Induced Self‐Assembly

C Li, W Zhao, J He, Y Zhang, W Zhang - Angewandte Chemie, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Lewis pair polymerization has demonstrated its unique advantages and powerful capability
in polymer synthesis. Here we employ strong nucleophilic N‐heterocyclic olefin (NHO) and …

Progress in aqueous dispersion RAFT PISA

D Ikkene, JL Six, K Ferji - European Polymer Journal, 2023 - Elsevier
Polymerization-induced self-assembly (PISA) is an emerging platform technology offering
many advantages to produce polymeric nano-objects compared to the solvent switch …

Triggered degradable colloidal particles with ordered inverse bicontinuous cubic and hexagonal mesophases

B Fan, J Wan, J Zhai, X Chen, SH Thang - ACS nano, 2021 - ACS Publications
We herein report a facile strategy to prepare triggered degradable block copolymer
nano/macro-objects, ranging from typical micelles, worms, jellyfish, and vesicles to rarely …

(Bio) degradable and biocompatible Nano-objects from polymerization-induced and crystallization-driven self-assembly

C Zhu, J Nicolas - Biomacromolecules, 2022 - ACS Publications
Polymerization-induced self-assembly (PISA) and crystallization-driven self-assembly
(CDSA) techniques have emerged as powerful approaches to produce a broad range of …

High-throughput routes to biomaterials discovery

F Soheilmoghaddam, M Rumble… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Many existing clinical treatments are limited in their ability to completely restore decreased
or lost tissue and organ function, an unenviable situation only further exacerbated by a …

Enhanced Adsorption of Epoxy‐Functional Nanoparticles onto Stainless Steel Significantly Reduces Friction in Tribological Studies

C György, PM Kirkman, TJ Neal, DHH Chan… - Angewandte …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Epoxy‐functional sterically‐stabilized diblock copolymer nanoparticles (ca. 27 nm) are
prepared via RAFT dispersion polymerization in mineral oil. Nanoparticle adsorption onto …

Efficient access to inverse bicontinuous mesophases via polymerization-induced cooperative assembly

F Lv, Z An, P Wu - CCS Chemistry, 2021 - chinesechemsoc.org
Polymerization-induced cooperative assembly (PICA) is reported to efficiently access
inverse bicontinuous mesophases within particles consisting of amphiphilic block …

Non-thermally initiated RAFT polymerization-induced self-assembly

N An, X Chen, J Yuan - Polymer Chemistry, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The reversible addition–fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) mediated polymerization-
induced self-assembly (PISA) enables efficient and convenient syntheses of polymeric …

Ring-opening polymerization-induced crystallization-driven self-assembly of poly-L-lactide-block-polyethylene glycol block copolymers (ROPI-CDSA)

PJ Hurst, AM Rakowski, JP Patterson - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
The self-assembly of block copolymers into 1D, 2D and 3D nano-and microstructures is of
great interest for a wide range of applications. A key challenge in this field is obtaining …

Exploiting the Monomer-Feeding Mechanism of RAFT Emulsion Polymerization for Polymerization-Induced Self-Assembly of Asymmetric Divinyl Monomers

J Zhou, Q Huang, L Zhang, J Tan - ACS Macro Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
We exploited the monomer-feeding mechanism of reversible addition–fragmentation chain
transfer (RAFT) emulsion polymerization to achieve the successful polymerization-induced …