Self-assembly and thermoreversible rheology of perfluorocarbon nanoemulsion-based gels with amphiphilic copolymers

Self-assembly of metal-polymer analogues of amphiphilic triblock copolymers.

Organized arrays of anisotropic nanoparticles show electronic and optical properties that originate from the coupling of shape-dependent properties of the individual nanorods. The organization of nanorods in a controllable and predictable way provides a route to the fabrication of new materials and functional devices. So far, significant progress has been achieved in the self-assembly of nanoro...

Self-Assembly of Amphiphilic Block Copolymers in Selective Solvents

For the last decades, amphiphilic block copolymers have been at the focus of extensive scientific interest, due to their unique properties and numerous potential applications. Their technological potential evolves from their ability to self-assemble into a plethora of morphologically diverse nanostructures such as micelles, polymersomes, cylinders and others. In this chapter, we discuss the bas...

Liquid Crystalline Gels by Self-Assembly of Triblock Copolymers

Directed assembly of functionalized nanoparticles with amphiphilic diblock copolymers.

The ability to design and fabricate highly ordered superstructures from nanoscale particles remains a major scientific and technological challenge. Patchy nanoparticles have recently emerged as a novel class of building units to construct functional materials. Using simulations of coarse-grained molecular dynamics, we propose a simple approach to achieve soft nanoparticles with a self-patchines...

Formation of polymer vesicles by simultaneous chain growth and self-assembly of amphiphilic block copolymers.

Polymerization-induced formation of amphiphilic diblock copolymer vesicles is performed in water at high concentrations by a single-step nitroxide-mediated controlled free-radical emulsion polymerization of 4-vinylpyridine, initiated by a water-soluble poly(sodium acrylate) macroalkoxyamine at alkaline pH.