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Undulated Multicompartment Cylinders by the Controlled and Directed Stacking of Polymer Micelles with a Compartmentalized Corona
Author(s) -
Fang Bing,
Walther Andreas,
Wolf Andrea,
Xu Youyong,
Yuan Jiayin,
Müller Axel H. E.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.200806051
Subject(s) - stacking , micelle , polybutadiene , polymer , materials science , corona (planetary geology) , methacrylate , solvent , copolymer , polymer chemistry , polymer science , bamboo , composite material , chemical engineering , chemistry , organic chemistry , physics , astrobiology , aqueous solution , venus , engineering
Like a bamboo rod : Long, bamboo‐like undulated cylinders with distinct branch points and end groups (see picture) were obtained by the stacking of block terpolymer micelles that contain a fluorinated polybutadiene core and a compartmentalized corona of poly(4‐ tert ‐butoxystyrene) and poly( tert ‐butyl methacrylate). Stacking of the polymer micelles, which can be reversed, occurred when the solvent was changed from dioxane to ethanol.