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 …

A critical appraisal of RAFT-mediated polymerization-induced self-assembly

SL Canning, GN Smith, SP Armes - Macromolecules, 2016 - ACS Publications
Recently, polymerization-induced self-assembly (PISA) has become widely recognized as a
robust and efficient route to produce block copolymer nanoparticles of controlled size …

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 …

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 …

Guided hierarchical co-assembly of soft patchy nanoparticles

AH Gröschel, A Walther, TI Löbling, FH Schacher… - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
The concept of hierarchical bottom-up structuring commonly encountered in natural
materials provides inspiration for the design of complex artificial materials with advanced …

Uniform patchy and hollow rectangular platelet micelles from crystallizable polymer blends

H Qiu, Y Gao, CE Boott, OEC Gould, RL Harniman… - Science, 2016 - science.org
The preparation of colloidally stable, self-assembled materials with tailorable solid or hollow
two-dimensional (2D) structures represents a major challenge. We describe the formation of …

Slow slip near the trench at the Hikurangi subduction zone, New Zealand

LM Wallace, SC Webb, Y Ito, K Mochizuki, R Hino… - Science, 2016 - science.org
The range of fault slip behaviors near the trench at subduction plate boundaries is critical to
know, as this is where the world's largest, most damaging tsunamis are generated. Our …

Tailored hierarchical micelle architectures using living crystallization-driven self-assembly in two dimensions

ZM Hudson, CE Boott, ME Robinson, PA Rupar… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Recent advances in the self-assembly of block copolymers have enabled the precise
fabrication of hierarchical nanostructures using low-cost solution-phase protocols. However …

Multidimensional hierarchical self-assembly of amphiphilic cylindrical block comicelles

H Qiu, ZM Hudson, MA Winnik, I Manners - Science, 2015 - science.org
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 …

Self-assembly concepts for multicompartment nanostructures

AH Gröschel, AHE Müller - Nanoscale, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Compartmentalization is ubiquitous to many biological and artificial systems, be it for the
separate storage of incompatible matter or to isolate transport processes. Advancements in …