Organic nanospheres with an internal bicontinuous structure and their responsive phase inversion
1The State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Department of Macromolecular Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433, China. jphe@fudan.edu.cn.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|May 29, 2014
Abstract:
Nanospheres with an internal bicontinuous structure were obtained through hierarchical self-assembly of a dendritic block terpolymer in selective solvents. The self-assembly underwent a unique three stage process involving unimolecular micelle formation, multimicelle aggregation and microphase separation within a self-confined space. Reversible phase inversion of the nanospheres in response to the solvent environment was observed.
