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 …

Precise hierarchical self-assembly of multicompartment micelles

AH Gröschel, FH Schacher, H Schmalz… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
Hierarchical self-assembly offers elegant and energy-efficient bottom-up strategies for the
structuring of complex materials. For block copolymers, the last decade witnessed great …

Strategies to create hierarchical self-assembled structures via cooperative non-covalent interactions

C Rest, R Kandanelli, G Fernández - Chemical Society Reviews, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Cooperative phenomena are common processes involved in the hierarchical self-assembly
of multiple systems in nature, such as the tobacco mosaic virus and a cell's cytoskeleton …

Design of block copolymer micelles via crystallization

JJ Crassous, P Schurtenberger, M Ballauff, AM Mihut - Polymer, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract This Feature Article provides an overview of the progress made over the last few
years in the design of diblock copolymer micelles based on crystallization-driven self …

Cross-linked block copolymer micelles: functional nanostructures of great potential and versatility

RK O'Reilly, CJ Hawker, KL Wooley - Chemical Society Reviews, 2006 - pubs.rsc.org
Supramolecular self assembly techniques have provided a versatile means by which to
selectively assemble polymer molecules into well-defined three dimensional core–shell …

Scalable fiber-like micelles and block co-micelles by polymerization-induced crystallization-driven self-assembly

AM Oliver, J Gwyther, CE Boott, S Davis… - Journal of the …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Self-assembled 1D block copolymer nanoparticles (micelles) are of interest for a range of
applications. However, morphologically pure samples are often challenging to access, and …

Dissipative particle dynamics simulation study on the mechanisms of self-assembly of large multimolecular micelles from amphiphilic dendritic multiarm copolymers

Y Wang, B Li, Y Zhou, Z Lu, D Yan - Soft Matter, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Dendritic multiarm copolymers, including dendrimer multiarm copolymers and
hyperbranched multiarm copolymers, have shown great potential to be excellent precursors …

Branched micelles by living crystallization-driven block copolymer self-assembly under kinetic control

H Qiu, Y Gao, VA Du, R Harniman… - Journal of the …, 2015 - ACS Publications
We have found that the width and shape (from rectangular to elliptical, to almost circular in
cross-section) of the crystalline core of fiberlike micelles of polyferrocenyldimethylsilane …

Crafting Threads of Diblock Copolymer Micelles via Flow-Enabled Self-Assembly

B Li, W Han, B Jiang, Z Lin - ACS nano, 2014 - ACS Publications
Hierarchically assembled amphiphilic diblock copolymer micelles were exquisitely crafted
over large areas by capitalizing on two concurrent self-assembling processes at different …

Probing into homopolymer self-assembly: how does hydrogen bonding influence morphology?

Y Zhu, L Liu, J Du - Macromolecules, 2013 - ACS Publications
Self-assembly of amphiphilic homopolymers composed of both hydrophilic and hydrophobic
components in each repeating unit is burgeoning in recent years due to their facile synthesis …