Towards an easy access to amphiphilic rod-coil miktoarm star copolymers

Water-soluble stimuli-responsive AB(2) miktoarm star copolymers were prepared by atom transfer radical polymerisation of styrene followed by chain-end modification, polymerisation of either gamma-benzyl-L-glutamate N-carboxyanhydride or tert-butylacrylate and a final step of hydrolysis.