Journal
MACROMOLECULAR RAPID COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 33, Issue 10, Pages 933-937Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/marc.201100787
Keywords
patchy particle; phase separation; polymeric dimer; self-assembly
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [NSFC 20904001, 20832001]
- NSF of Anhui Province [090414198]
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A straightforward strategy for assembling polymeric dimers from amphiphilic nanoparticles is reported. Amphiphilic polymeric nanoparticles with a mixed-shell of PEO/P2VN blocks and a flexible core of PAA blocks are fabricated by a non-covalent crosslinking method. Uniform polymeric dimers are efficiently and simply obtained via hydrophobic interactions under optimized conditions in selective solvent. The steric hindrance generated by reorganization of hydrophilic polymer brushes during the interparticle association is critical for morphological selectivity in the assembly. General applicability offers the possibility to organize functional NPs into superstructures with well-defined geometry and association numbers.
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