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 …

Concepts, fabrication methods and applications of living crystallization-driven self-assembly of block copolymers

S Ganda, MH Stenzel - Progress in Polymer Science, 2020 - Elsevier
Living crystallization-driven self-assembly (CDSA) has emerged as a technique that is able
to perform solution phase self-assembly of semi-crystalline block copolymers in a controlled …

Crystallization assisted self-assembly of semicrystalline block copolymers

WN He, JT Xu - Progress in Polymer Science, 2012 - Elsevier
The self-assembly of block copolymers (BCPs) in the presence of crystallization as the
second driving force is reviewed, for BCPs in the bulk, thin films, single crystals and micelles …

Two-dimensional assemblies from crystallizable homopolymers with charged termini

X He, MS Hsiao, CE Boott, RL Harniman, A Nazemi… - Nature materials, 2017 - nature.com
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 …

50th Anniversary Perspective: Polymer Crystals and Crystallization: Personal Journeys in a Challenging Research Field

B Lotz, T Miyoshi, SZD Cheng - Macromolecules, 2017 - ACS Publications
Analyzing and understanding the structure and morphology of crystalline polymers has been
and remains to be a major challenge. Some of the issues have resisted analyses for …

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 …

π-Conjugated-polymer-based nanofibers through living crystallization-driven self-assembly: preparation, properties and applications

J Ma, G Lu, X Huang, C Feng - Chemical Communications, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
π-Conjugated-polymer-based nanofibers (CPNFs) of controlled length, composition and
morphology are promising for a broad range of emerging applications in optoelectronics …

Self-seeding in one dimension: a route to uniform fiber-like nanostructures from block copolymers with a crystallizable core-forming block

J Qian, Y Lu, A Chia, M Zhang, PA Rupar, N Gunari… - ACS …, 2013 - ACS Publications
One-dimensional micelles formed by the self-assembly of crystalline-coil poly (
ferrocenyldimethylsilane)(PFS) block copolymers exhibit self-seeding behavior when …

Crystallization-driven self-assembly of block copolymers with a short crystallizable core-forming segment: controlling micelle morphology through the influence of …

MS Hsiao, SFM Yusoff, MA Winnik, I Manners - Macromolecules, 2014 - ACS Publications
Three well-defined asymmetric crystalline-coil poly (ferrocenyldimethylsilane-block-2-
vinylpyridine)(PFS-b-P2VP) diblock copolymers (PFS44-b-P2VP264, PFS75-b-P2VP454 …

A comprehensive review on polymer single crystals—From fundamental concepts to applications

S Agbolaghi, S Abbaspoor, F Abbasi - Progress in Polymer Science, 2018 - Elsevier
Polymer single crystals and correlated crystalline structures are reviewed by emphasizing
the last 10–20 years of research on fundamental concepts, single crystal engineering, and …