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  • Polymer Chemistry
  • Soft Matter Physics

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  • Patchy particles are crucial building blocks for creating complex hierarchical structures due to their surface functionalization.
  • Fabricating well-defined patchy particles is essential for advanced materials design and self-assembly studies.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To demonstrate a convenient, scalable bottom-up method for fabricating diblock copolymer patchy particles.
  • To investigate the relationship between copolymer composition and the number of surface patches.
  • To understand how patch number influences particle assembly and merging behaviors.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a bottom-up approach involving the slow addition of a nonsolvent to a diblock copolymer solution.
  • Initiated fabrication with crew-cut soft-core micelles, inducing aggregation of corona-forming blocks to create patches.
  • Employed dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) simulations alongside experimental methods to validate findings.

Main Results:

  • Successfully fabricated diblock copolymer patchy particles through a simple, scalable experimental process.
  • Established a strong correlation between diblock copolymer composition and the number of surface patches.
  • Demonstrated that a higher number of patches enhances particle assembly, while fewer patches promote merging.

Conclusions:

  • The developed method offers a straightforward and scalable route to synthesize tunable patchy particles.
  • Copolymer composition is a key factor in controlling the morphology and self-assembly properties of patchy particles.
  • Patchy particles exhibit distinct assembly and merging behaviors based on their surface patch density, enabling tailored hierarchical structures.