After a brief history that positions polymerization‐induced self‐assembly (PISA) in the field of
polymer chemistry, this Review will cover the fundamentals of the PISA mechanism …

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 …

Alginate is a biopolymer extensively utilized in numerous applications. Hydrogel forming
property, chemical structure with hydroxyl and carboxylate moieties, biocompatibility …

Recently, polymerization-induced self-assembly (PISA) has become widely recognized as a
robust and efficient route to produce block copolymer nanoparticles of controlled size …

The development of controlled/“living” polymerization greatly stimulated the prosperity of the
fabrication and application of block copolymer nano-objects. Controlled/“living” …

The discovery of the first “living” radical polymerization by Otsu and co-workers (1) in 1982
heralded the start of a very exciting time for polymer chemists. Since then, a plethora of living …

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 …

Drug delivery systems (DDS) based on functionalized polymeric nanoparticles have
attracted considerable attention. Although great advances have been reported in the past …

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 …