Liquid‐phase electron microscopy for soft matter science and biology

H Wu, H Friedrich, JP Patterson… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Innovations in liquid‐phase electron microscopy (LP‐EM) have made it possible to perform
experiments at the optimized conditions needed to examine soft matter. The main obstacle is …

Liquid–liquid phase separation during amphiphilic self-assembly

A Ianiro, H Wu, MMJ van Rijt, MP Vena, ADA Keizer… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The self-assembly of amphiphilic molecules in solution is a ubiquitous process in both
natural and synthetic systems. The ability to effectively control the structure and properties of …

1D vs. 2D shape selectivity in the crystallization-driven self-assembly of polylactide block copolymers

M Inam, G Cambridge, A Pitto-Barry, ZPL Laker… - Chemical …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
2D materials such as graphene, LAPONITE® clays or molybdenum disulfide nanosheets are
of extremely high interest to the materials community as a result of their high surface area …

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 …

Self-assembled blends of AB/BAB block copolymers prepared through dispersion RAFT polymerization

C Gao, J Wu, H Zhou, Y Qu, B Li, W Zhang - Macromolecules, 2016 - ACS Publications
Synthesis of ingenious nanoassemblies is pursued in materials science. Herein, the in situ
synthesis of the self-assembled blends of AB/BAB block copolymers of poly (ethylene glycol) …

Entropic mixing of ring/linear polymer blends

GS Grest, T Ge, SJ Plimpton, M Rubinstein… - ACS Polymers …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The topological constraints of nonconcatenated ring polymers force them to form compact
loopy globular conformations with much lower entropy than unconstrained ideal rings. The …

Nonionic block copolymer coacervates

A Rizvi, U Patel, A Ianiro, PJ Hurst, JG Merham… - …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Liquid–liquid phase separation of macromolecules is an important process in many
biological and synthetic systems. The process results in the formation of coacervates that act …

Maintaining hydrophobic drug supersaturation in a micelle corona reservoir

Z Li, TI Lenk, LJ Yao, FS Bates, TP Lodge - Macromolecules, 2018 - ACS Publications
Two poly (N-isopropylacrylamide-co-N, N-dimethylacrylamide)(PND) statistical copolymers
and a series of three poly (N-isopropylacrylamide-co-N, N-dimethylacrylamide)-b …

Micellar nanoparticles with tuneable morphologies through interactions between nucleobase-containing synthetic polymers in aqueous solution

Z Hua, A Pitto-Barry, Y Kang, N Kirby, TR Wilks… - Polymer …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Herein, we report the preparation of nucleobase-containing synthetic amphiphilic diblock
copolymers using RAFT polymerization. Well-defined spherical micelles can be formed in …

Fine-tuning the pH response of polymersomes for mimicking and controlling the cell membrane functionality

H Gumz, TH Lai, B Voit, D Appelhans - Polymer Chemistry, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
To expand the biomedical applications of pH responsive polymersomes a concept is
presented for precisely adjusting the pH triggered transition of the membrane permeability …