Open AccessCover Image, Volume 54, Issue 7
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of polymer science part a: polymer chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.768
H-Index - 152
eISSN - 1099-0518
pISSN - 0887-624X
DOI - 10.1002/pola.28059
Subject(s) - vesicle , copolymer , polymerization , polymer science , dispersion polymerization , ethylene glycol , cover (algebra) , polymer , peg ratio , raft , polymer chemistry , polyethylene glycol , reversible addition−fragmentation chain transfer polymerization , chemistry , materials science , computer science , radical polymerization , membrane , composite material , organic chemistry , engineering , mechanical engineering , biochemistry , finance , economics
On page 900 (DOI: 10.1002/pola.27947 ), Chengqiang Gao, Chonggao Liu, Heng Zhou, Shuang Wang, and Wangqing Zhang report the in situ synthesis of ferrocene‐containing block copolymer nano‐assemblies of poly(ethylene glycol)‐ block ‐poly(4‐vinylbenzyl ferrocenecarboxylate) (PEG‐ b ‐PVFC) with molecular weights of up to 100 kDa via dispersion RAFT polymerization. New PEG‐ b ‐PVFC nano‐assembly morphologies, such as worms, vesicles, multilayer vesicles, and vesicles containing a thick and porous membrane, were prepared through dispersion RAFT polymerization. The morphology of the PEG‐ b ‐PVFC diblock copolymer nano‐objects is dependent on the polymerization degree of the PEG and PVFC blocks.