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SOFT MATTER
Volume 6, Issue 21, Pages 5589-5595Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c0sm00428f
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- Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [20774082, 50830106]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [2009QNA4039]
- Programs Foundation of the Ministry of Education of China [20070335024]
- State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials [SKLSSM200911]
- Natural Science Foundation of China of Zhejiang Province [Y4080250]
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An azobenzene-containing block copolymer poly(ethylene oxide)-b-poly(6-[4-phenylazo phenoxy] hexyl methacrylate-co-2-(dimethylamino) ethyl methacrylate) (PEO-b-P(AzoMA-co-DMAEMA)) was successfully designed to explore self-assembly behavior in an aqueous solution. PEO-b-P(AzoMA-co-DMAEMA) can self-assemble into vesicles in water. The morphologies and sizes of the vesicles can be controlled by copolymerization of hydrophobic AzoMA with different amounts of DMAEMA. Spherical vesicle-to-compound vesicle-to-irregular vesicle transitions were observed by facilely adjusting the content of DMAEMA and AzoMA. After the addition of different amounts of beta-CD, vesicles were transformed into micelles and at last dissociated. Alternating irradiation of the solution with UV and visible light induced the reversible supramolecular self-assembly and disassembly of vesicles because of the photo-induced trans-to-cis isomerization of azobenzene units. The supramolecular self-assembly and disassembly procedure was studied by dynamic light scattering (DLS), transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and UV-vis spectra.
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