Open AccessCover Image, Volume 56, Issue 10
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of polymer science part b: polymer physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.65
H-Index - 145
eISSN - 1099-0488
pISSN - 0887-6266
DOI - 10.1002/polb.24607
Subject(s) - polyethylene glycol , micelle , amphiphile , thermostability , biocompatibility , polymer , copolymer , polysulfone , polymer science , materials science , chemistry , computer science , polymer chemistry , composite material , organic chemistry , aqueous solution , enzyme
Novel polysulfone micellar spheres with in situ PEGylated surfaces are prepared simply by heating the amphiphilic block copolymer, polysulfone‐ b ‐polyethylene glycol (PSF‐ b ‐PEG) in polar solvents. On page 769, Zexian Zhang, Jie Li, Zhaogen Wang, Changcheng He, and Yong Wang demonstrate micelles with uniform and tunable sizes with PEG as the corona and PSF as the core. PEG endows the micelles with water dispersibility and good biocompatibility while PSF provides mechanical robustness and thermostability. (DOI: 10.1002/polb.24596 )