The development of π-conjugated polymers has provided a gateway to a variety of new
functional organic materials reminiscent of inorganic semiconductors. Nanoparticles based …

The use of crystallization as a tool to control the self-assembly of polymeric and molecular
amphiphiles in solution is attracting growing attention for the creation of non-spherical …

Polymerization-induced self-assembly (PISA) combines polymerization and self-assembly in
a single step with distinct efficiency that has set it apart from the conventional solution self …

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 …

The polymerization‐induced self‐assembly (PISA) process is a useful synthetic tool for the
efficient synthesis of polymeric nanoparticles of different morphologies. Recently, studies on …

A chemical reaction that drives a physical polymer self-assembly process, namely,
polymerization-induced self-assembly (PISA), combines block copolymer synthesis and …

Polymerization‐induced self‐assembly (PISA) has been established as an efficient, robust,
and versatile approach to synthesize various block copolymer nano‐objects with controlled …

Self-assembly of molecular and block copolymer amphiphiles represents a well-established
route to micelles with a wide variety of shapes and gel-like phases. We demonstrate an …

The creation of shaped, uniform and colloidally stable two-dimensional (2D) assemblies by
bottom-up methods represents a challenge of widespread current interest for a variety of …

The preparation of well-defined nanoparticles based on soft matter, using solution-
processing techniques on a commercially viable scale, is a major challenge of widespread …