Amphiphilic block copolymers: their structures, and self-assembly to polymeric micelles and polymersomes as drug delivery vehicles

K Kuperkar, D Patel, LI Atanase, P Bahadur - Polymers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Self-assembly of amphiphilic block copolymers display a multiplicity of nanoscale periodic
patterns proposed as a dominant tool for the 'bottom-up'fabrication of nanomaterials with …

New micellar morphologies from amphiphilic block copolymers: disks, toroids and bicontinuous micelles

SJ Holder, NAJM Sommerdijk - Polymer Chemistry, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
Amphiphilic AB and ABA block copolymers have been demonstrated to form a variety of self-
assembled aggregate structures in dilute solutions where the solvent preferentially solvates …

Block copolymer nanostructures

T Smart, H Lomas, M Massignani, MV Flores-Merino… - Nano Today, 2008 - Elsevier
One of the most important classes of synthetic systems for creating self-assembled
nanostructures is amphiphilic block copolymers. By controlling the architecture of individual …

Self-assembly of amphiphilic block copolymers in selective solvents

M Karayianni, S Pispas - Fluorescence studies of polymer containing …, 2016 - Springer
For the last decades, amphiphilic block copolymers have been at the focus of extensive
scientific interest, due to their unique properties and numerous potential applications. Their …

Emerging trends in solution self-assembly of block copolymers

Z Deng, S Liu - Polymer, 2020 - Elsevier
Since the foundation of macromolecular science by Staudinger, advances in polymer
chemistry have unveiled enormous avenues for controlling chemical structures at the …

Double hydrophilic block copolymers self-assemblies in biomedical applications

A El Jundi, SJ Buwalda, Y Bakkour, X Garric… - Advances in colloid and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Double-hydrophilic block copolymers (DHBCs), consisting of at least two different water-
soluble blocks, are an alternative to the classical amphiphilic block copolymers and have …

A novel diblock copolymer with a supramolecular polymer block and a traditional polymer block: preparation, controllable self‐assembly in water, and application in …

X Ji, S Dong, P Wei, D Xia, F Huang - Advanced Materials, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Block copolymers that consist of more than one chemically distinct polymer segment linked
together by covalent or noncovalent bonds, can work as an important type of …

Supramolecular assemblies of block copolymers in aqueous media as nanocontainers relevant to biological applications

A Harada, K Kataoka - Progress in polymer science, 2006 - Elsevier
Multimolecular assemblies of block copolymers have received considerable attention from
both fundamental and applied standpoints. These assemblies are formed in selective …

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 …

Block copolymer systems: from single chain to self-assembled nanostructures

C Giacomelli, V Schmidt, K Aissou, R Borsali - Langmuir, 2010 - ACS Publications
Recent advances in the field of macromolecular engineering applied to the fabrication of
nanostructured materials using block copolymer chains as elementary building blocks are …