Vesicular assembly and thermo-responsive vesicle-to-micelle transition from an amphiphilic random copolymer
- 24 October 2011
- journal article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Chemical Communications
- Vol. 47 (46), 12491-12493
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c1cc15663b
Abstract
Vesicular assembly from a thermo-responsive amphiphilic random copolymer is reported. Vesicle-to-micelle transition above a critical morphology transition temperature (CMTT) resulted in selective triggered release of encapsulated hydrophilic guests over hydrophobic ones. The aggregation pattern of a control polymer indicated a defined role of the methacrylamide groups in the polymer backbone for such unprecedented self-assembly from a simple polymer.Keywords
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