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MACROMOLECULES
Volume 55, Issue 5, Pages 1544-1551Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.1c02075
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- National Creative Research Initiative Program
- National Research Foundation of Korea [2013R1A3A2042196]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21925301, 2019M651340]
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This study prepared core-satellite micelles using a linear tetrablock copolymer and observed different shapes of micelles. A core-satellite structure was observed when the volume fraction was large, while a separate satellite structure was observed when the volume fraction was small.
Block copolymers in water or compatible solvents show micelles with various shapes, such as worm-like, vesicles, and spheres. In this study, we prepared core-satellite micelles by employing a polystyrene-block-polyisoprene-block-polystyrene-block-polyisoprene (S1I1S2I2) linear tetrablock copolymer. When a PS-compatible solvent, for example, dimethylacetamide or diethylph-thalate, is used, the PI chains form the inside core, while the PS chains become a shell as long as the volume fraction of mid PI1 chains (f(PI1)) is large enough (0.2) to form a loop configuration, resulting in merging into spherical cores consisting of the PI2 chains. However, at smaller f(PI1) (0.08), the short mid PI1 chains cannot merge into the PI2 core and therefore exist separately as small spherical micelles, which are referred to as the satellite micelles. Thus, the micelles consist of large central core spheres and smaller outside satellite spherical micelles.
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