pH-responsive non-ionic diblock copolymers: Ionization of carboxylic acid end-groups induces an order-order morphological transition

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1279-1283

  Lovett, Joseph R ^a   Warren, Nicholas J ^a   Ratcliffe, Liam P D ^a   Kocik, Marzena K ^a   Armes, Steven P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Block copolymers; Morphological transitions; Nanoparticles; RAFT polymerization; Self assembly

Indexed keywords

BLOCK COPOLYMERS; CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; IONIZATION; LIVING POLYMERIZATION; NANOPARTICLES; SELF ASSEMBLY;

CONTROL EXPERIMENTS; COPOLYMER CHAINS; METHYL ESTERS; MORPHOLOGICAL TRANSITIONS; PACKING PARAMETERS; RAFT POLYMERIZATION; REVERSIBLE ADDITION-FRAGMENTATION TRANSFERS; SPHERE TRANSITION;

COPOLYMERS;

EID: 84921033616     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: 15213773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201409799     Document Type: Article

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