Issue 6, 2015
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Polymer Chemistry

Silkworm cocoons by cylinders self-assembled from H-shaped alternating polymer brushes†

Qiutong Huang,a   Bo Yang,a   Huanhuan Liu,b   Youliang Zhao*b  and  Jianzhong Du*a  

* Corresponding authors

a School of Materials Science and Engineering, Key Laboratory of Advanced Civil Engineering Materials of Ministry of Education, Tongji University, 4800 Caoan Road, Shanghai, China
E-mail: jzdu@tongji.edu.cn

b Suzhou Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Design and Precision Synthesis, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Functional Polymer Design and Application, College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, China
E-mail: ylzhao@suda.edu.cn

Abstract

We report a novel silkworm cocoon-like nanostructure based on the 3D hierarchical self-assembly of cylinders which are spontaneously formed by an H-shaped polymer brush comprising a disulfide-bridged spacer and two brushes with alternating PEG and PCL side chains. Crystalline of PCL between adjacent cylinders bridges cylinders.

Graphical abstract: Silkworm cocoons by cylinders self-assembled from H-shaped alternating polymer brushes

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C4PY01484G
Article type
Communication
Submitted
31 Oct 2014
Accepted
20 Nov 2014
First published
21 Nov 2014

Polym. Chem., 2015,6, 886-890

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Silkworm cocoons by cylinders self-assembled from H-shaped alternating polymer brushes

Q. Huang, B. Yang, H. Liu, Y. Zhao and J. Du, Polym. Chem., 2015, 6, 886 DOI: 10.1039/C4PY01484G

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