Issue 19, 2010
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Soft Matter

Patchy multi-compartment micelles are formed by direct dissolution of an ABCtriblock copolymer in water†

Jianzhong Du*ab  and  Steven P. Armesb  

* Corresponding authors

a School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Key Laboratory of Advanced Civil Engineering Materials (Tongji University), Ministry of Education, 1239 Siping Road, Shanghai, China
E-mail: jzdu@tongji.edu.cn
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b Department of Chemistry, University of Sheffield, Brook Hill, Sheffield, UK
E-mail: S.P.Armes@Sheffield.ac.uk
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Abstract

Patchy multi-compartment micelles are formed on direct dissolution of a primary amine-based triblock copolymer, poly(ethylene oxide)-b-poly(ε-caprolactone)-b-poly(2-aminoethyl methacrylate), PEO-b-PCL-b-PAMA, in water, with PCL chains forming the micelle cores and the PEO and PAMA chains forming phase-segregated patchy or hemispherical coronas. By selectively silicifying the PCL cores with tetramethyl orthosilicate (TMOS), the phase-separated character of these micelles is revealed by transmission electron microscopy.

Graphical abstract: Patchy multi-compartment micelles are formed by direct dissolution of an ABC triblock copolymer in water

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C0SM00258E
Article type
Paper
Submitted
14 Apr 2010
Accepted
27 Jun 2010
First published
17 Aug 2010

Soft Matter, 2010,6, 4851-4857

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Patchy multi-compartment micelles are formed by direct dissolution of an ABC triblock copolymer in water

J. Du and S. P. Armes, Soft Matter, 2010, 6, 4851 DOI: 10.1039/C0SM00258E

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