Emerging applications for living crystallization-driven self-assembly

L MacFarlane, C Zhao, J Cai, H Qiu, I Manners - Chemical Science, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
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 …

1D Colloidal chains: recent progress from formation to emergent properties and applications

X Fan, A Walther - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Integrating nanoscale building blocks of low dimensionality (0D; ie, spheres) into higher
dimensional structures endows them and their corresponding materials with emergent …

Understanding the seeded heteroepitaxial growth of crystallizable polymers: the role of crystallization thermodynamics

L Zhu, L Liu, S Varlas, RY Wang, RK O'Reilly, Z Tong - ACS nano, 2023 - ACS Publications
Seeded heteroepitaxial growth is a “living” crystallization-driven self-assembly (CDSA)
method that has emerged as a promising route to create uniform segmented nanoparticles …

Seeded epitaxial growth of crystallizable polymers governed by crystallization temperatures

L Liu, L Zhu, Z Chu, Z Tong - Macromolecules, 2023 - ACS Publications
Seeded growth is generally regarded as an ambient-temperature, living crystallization-
driven self-assembly (CDSA) approach of block copolymers (BCPs) with crystallizable cores …

Hydrogen-bond-regulated platelet micelles by crystallization-driven self-assembly and templated growth for poly (ε-caprolactone) block copolymers

Y Su, Y Jiang, L Liu, Y Xie, S Chen, Y Wang… - …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Living crystallization-driven self-assembly (CDSA) is a powerful approach to tailor
nanoparticles with controlled size and spatially defined compositions from amphiphilic …

Precise Control of Two-Dimensional Platelet Micelles from Biodegradable Poly(p-dioxanone) Block Copolymers by Crystallization-Driven Self-Assembly

X Zhang, G Chen, L Liu, L Zhu, Z Tong - Macromolecules, 2022 - ACS Publications
Two-dimensional (2D) core–shell nanoparticles have been attracting increasing interest due
to their wide applications in materials science. Living crystallization-driven self-assembly …

Length-controlled nanofiber micelleplexes as efficient nucleic acid delivery vehicles

STG Street, J Chrenek, RL Harniman… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Micelleplexes show great promise as effective polymeric delivery systems for nucleic acids.
Although studies have shown that spherical micelleplexes can exhibit superior cellular …

Crystalline Nanoflowers Derived from the Intramolecular Cyclization-Induced Self-Assembly of an Amorphous Poly (Amic Acid) at High Solid Content

J Liu, T Wang, H Sun - ACS Macro Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
The investigation of the amorphous to crystalline transformation and the corresponding
influence on the self-assembly behavior of amphiphilic polymers are of significant interest in …

Uniform two-dimensional crystalline platelets with tailored compositions for ph stimulus-responsive drug release

X Zhang, G Chen, B Zheng, Z Wan, L Liu… - …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Two-dimensional, size-tunable, water-dispersible particle micelles with spatially defined
chemistries can be obtained by using “living” crystallization-driven self-assembly (CDSA) …

Homopolymer Self-Assembly: Principles, Driving Forces, and Applications

J Li, Y Fan, Q Gu, X Zhou, H Sun, J Du - Chemistry of Materials, 2023 - ACS Publications
Homopolymer self-assembly has attracted much attention in polymer science and soft
nanomaterials due to the fuzzy boundary between hydrophilic and hydrophobic moieties of …