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Synthesis of an Amphiphilic Miktoarm Star Terpolymer for Self-Assembly into Patchy Polymersomes
Jens Gaitzsch1,2, Vijay Chudasama1, Eloise Morecroft1
1Department of Chemistry, University College London, 20 Gordon Street, London WC1H 0AJ, United Kingdom.
ACS Macro Letters
|May 26, 2022
Abstract:
Herein we report the synthesis of an amphiphilic miktoarm star terpolymer and combine it with an equivalent diblock copolymer to form polymersomes with controlled surface topology. The three branches are ligated onto a central maleimide moiety in a reaction sequence that exploits various "click" chemistries. The final star was self-assembled with a linear block copolymer to generate a "patchy" surface on vesicles.

