Curvature-coupled hydration of semicrystalline polymer amphiphiles yields flexible worm micelles but favors rigid vesicles: Polycaprolactone-based block copolymers

Macromolecules

Volumn 43, Issue 23, 2010, Pages 9736-9746

  Rajagopal, Karthikan ^a,b   Mahmud, Abdullah ^a,b   Christian, David A ^a   Pajerowski, J David ^a   Brown, Andre E X ^a   Loverde, Sharon M ^a,b   Discher, Dennis E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPROLACTONE; CRYSTALLINITIES; CRYSTALLIZATION PROCESS; DIBLOCK COPOLYMER; DIBLOCKS; DISPERSED PHASIS; ENCAPSULANTS; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; GLASSY STATE; HYDROPHOBIC POLYMERS; LACTIDES; MEAN CURVATURE; MICROPHASES; PEO-PCL; PHASE SPACES; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SEMI-CRYSTALLINE POLYMER; SEMICRYSTALLINES; SPHERICAL MICELLES; THERMAL UNDULATIONS; TWO-STATE; UNDERLYING MECHANISM;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS; COPOLYMERIZATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; ETHYLENE; HYDRATION; MICELLES; PHASE SPACE METHODS; POLYETHYLENE OXIDES; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

POLYCAPROLACTONE;

EID: 78651291068     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma101316w     Document Type: Article

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