Issue 64, 2014

A CO2- and temperature-switchable “schizophrenic” block copolymer: from vesicles to micelles

Abstract

CO2-responsiveness is imported into amphiphilic block copolymers, poly[(N,N-diethylaminoethyl methacrylate)-b-(N-isopropylacrylamide)] (PDEAEMA-b-PNIPAM), and a system dual-responsive to CO2 and temperature is constructed. The copolymer self-assembles in aqueous solution, and undergoes phase transition when CO2 and temperature stimuli occur, since the stimuli give rise to the conversion of the hydrophilicity of both blocks. Combining CO2 and temperature as triggers, schizophrenic micelle to vesicle morphological transition of the polymer assemblies is controlled.

Graphical abstract: A CO2- and temperature-switchable “schizophrenic” block copolymer: from vesicles to micelles

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Communication
Submitted
28 Apr 2014
Accepted
17 Jun 2014
First published
17 Jun 2014

Chem. Commun., 2014,50, 8958-8961

A CO2- and temperature-switchable “schizophrenic” block copolymer: from vesicles to micelles

A. Feng, C. Zhan, Q. Yan, B. Liu and J. Yuan, Chem. Commun., 2014, 50, 8958 DOI: 10.1039/C4CC03156C

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