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Wright, Daniel Bayham, Patterson, Joseph P., Pitto-Barry, Anaïs, Lu, Annhelen, Kirby, Nigel, Gianneschi, Nathan C., Chassenieux, Christophe, Colombani, Olivier and O’Reilly, Rachel K. (2015) The Copolymer blending method : a new approach for targeted assembly of micellar nanoparticles. Macromolecules, 48 (18). pp. 6516-6522. doi:10.1021/acs.macromol.5b01426 ISSN 0024-9297 .
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.5b01426
Abstract
Polymer self-assembly in solution is a simple strategy for the preparation of elegant yet complex nanomaterials. However, exhaustive synthesis of the copolymer synthons is often required to access specific assemblies. In this work we show that the blending of just two diblock copolymers with identical block lengths but varying hydrophobic monomer incorporations can be used to access a range of assemblies of intermediate hydrophobic composition. Indeed, the nanostructures produced from blending are identical to those formed with the directly synthesized copolymer of the same composition. This new approach presents researchers with a more efficient and accessible methodology to access precision self-assembled nanostructures, and we highlight its potential by applying it to a demonstrator catalytically active system.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | Q Science > QD Chemistry T Technology > TP Chemical technology |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Chemistry | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Polymers, Nanostructured materials , Nanostructures, Diblock copolymers | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Macromolecules | ||||||||
| Publisher: | American Chemical Society | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0024-9297 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 22 September 2015 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 48 | ||||||||
| Number: | 18 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 6516-6522 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1021/acs.macromol.5b01426 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 13 January 2016 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 18 February 2016 | ||||||||
| Funder: | European Science Foundation (ESF), Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), United States. Air Force. Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) | ||||||||
| Grant number: | P2M (ESF), ECASE-FA9550-11-1- 01-5 (AFOSR), |
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