Journal
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 128, Issue 11, Pages 3784-3788Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ja057762k
Keywords
-
Categories
Ask authors/readers for more resources
Microwave-assisted polymerization has been utilized to synthesize amphiphilic poly(2-ethyl-2-oxazoline-block-2-'' soy alkyl ''-2-oxazoline) diblock copolymers (PEtOx-PSoyOx). The amphiphilic block copolymers have been used to prepare aqueous spherical micelles consisting of a PEtOx Corona and a PSoyOx core, which have been further cross-linked by UV irradiation. The morphology of these crosslinked micelles has been shown to reversibly change from spheres to short rods referred to as rice grains whenever the micelles were transferred from water into acetone, a nonselective solvent for the constituent blocks. This morphological transition has been attributed to the swelling of the slightly cross-linked PSoyOx core.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available