Responsive block copolymer photonics triggered by protein-polyelectrolyte coacervation

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 11467-11473

  Fan, Yin ^a   Tang, Shengchang ^a   Thomas, Edwin L ^b   Olsen, Bradley D ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

Block copolymer; Coacervation; Photonic gel; Polyelectrolytes; Proteins

Indexed keywords

FILMS; GELS; HYDROPHOBICITY; POLYELECTROLYTES; PROTEINS; STYRENE; SWELLING;

BLOCK COPOLYMER THIN FILMS; COACERVATION; CROSS-LINK DENSITIES; HYDROPHILIC BLOCKS; HYDROPHOBIC BLOCKS; IONIC INTERACTION; PHOTONIC RESPONSE; POLY(2-VINYLPYRIDINE) (P2VP);

BLOCK COPOLYMERS;

ELECTROLYTE; POLYMER; PROTEIN;

CHEMISTRY; OPTICS;

ELECTROLYTES; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; POLYMERS; PROTEINS;

EID: 84912571445     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn504565r     Document Type: Article

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