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Soft Matter

A tetramer micelle: the smallest aggregation number corresponding to the vertex number of regular polyhedra in platonic micelles†

Shota Fujii, ORCID logo a   Rintaro Takahashi, ORCID logo a   Lee Ji Ha ORCID logo a  and  Kazuo Sakurai ORCID logo *a  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Kitakyushu, 1-1 Hibikino, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka 808-0135, Japan
E-mail: sakurai@kitakyu-u.ac.jp

Abstract

In this paper, we describe the construction of tetramer micelles based on the idea of “Platonic micelles” whose aggregation number (Nagg) matches the vertex number of regular polyhedra and exhibits the monodispersity and discreteness in the Nagg.

Graphical abstract: A tetramer micelle: the smallest aggregation number corresponding to the vertex number of regular polyhedra in platonic micelles

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C7SM02028G
Article type
Communication
Submitted
13 Oct 2017
Accepted
30 Nov 2017
First published
05 Jan 2018

Soft Matter, 2018,14, 875-878

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A tetramer micelle: the smallest aggregation number corresponding to the vertex number of regular polyhedra in platonic micelles

S. Fujii, R. Takahashi, L. J. Ha and K. Sakurai, Soft Matter, 2018, 14, 875 DOI: 10.1039/C7SM02028G

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