RAFT polymerization-induced self-assembly of semifluorinated liquid-crystalline block copolymers
e-Polymers, 2022 It is a major challenge to prepare commercially viable scale semifluorinated liquid-crystalline block copolymers (SEFL-BCPs) using solution processing techniques.
Yang Yongqi +5 more
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Constructing helical nanowires via polymerization-induced self-assembly. [PDF]
RSC Adv, 2021 Helical nanowires were successfully synthesized through polymerization-induced self-assembly and subsequent aging. The achiral BCP nano-objects underwent a morphology transition from spheres to helical nanowires during aging.
Chen Q +5 more
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Aggregate, 2021 Collecting both enantiomorphs with high optical purity and yield in a single crystallization process can be achieved by adding aggregated polymeric “tailor‐made” additives, known as nano‐splitters.
Bowen Li +5 more
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Systematic analysis of nucleation-dependent polymerization reveals new insights into the mechanism of amyloid self-assembly [PDF]
, 2008 Self-assembly of misfolded proteins into ordered fibrillar aggregates known as amyloid results in numerous human diseases. Despite an increasing number of proteins and peptide fragments being recognised as amyloidogenic, how these amyloid aggregates ...
Xue, Wei-Feng +2 more
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ICAR ATRP-induced surface self-assembly in the fabrication of the surface nanostructures
Giant, 2022 Polymerization induced surface self-assembly (PISSA) technology is a state-of-the-art method in the fabrication of the hierarchical surface nanostructures.
Chen Wang, Haoran Deng, Hanying Zhao
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Structural intermediates in the assembly of taxoid-induced microtubules and GDP-tubulin double rings: time-resolved X-ray scattering [PDF]
, 1996 We have studied the self-association reactions of purified GDP-liganded tubulin into double rings and taxoid-induced microtubules, employing synchrotron time-resolved x-ray solution scattering.
Diaz, J.F. +6 more
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Polymerization-induced self-assembly for drug delivery
Journal of Polymer Science, 2023 Polymerization-induced self-assembly (PISA) with (in situ) encapsulation of (therapeutic) cargo has proven to be an efficient preparation method for loaded polymeric micelles and polymersomes, thereby presenting significant opportunities in the field of drug delivery.
Hochreiner, Eleonora G. +1 more
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Polymerization-Induced Interfacial Self-Assembly: A Powerful Tool for the Synthesis of Micro-sized Hollow Capsules [PDF]
, 2021 Synthesis of hollow capsules by the polymerization-induced interfacial self-assembly (PIISA) approach is reported in this research. In a typical PIISA process, a hydrophilic polymer synthesized by reversible addition–fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT ...
Mingming Zhang +7 more
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Polymerization‐Induced Self‐Assembly for Artificial Biology: Opportunities and Challenges [PDF]
Macromolecular Rapid Communications, 2018 AbstractThe study of the origin of life and current undergoing efforts to produce artificial chemical systems mimicking the behavior of natural living systems have emerged as a hot topic at the interfaces among disciplines. In these two problems, the spontaneous generation of free‐energy gradients by means of material interfaces plays a central role ...
Gong Cheng, Juan Pérez‐Mercader
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Amphiphilic block copolymers : synthesis, self-assembly and applications [PDF]
, 2015 Self-assembly of amphiphilic block copolymers in aqueous solution is one of the most important nanotechnological methods to prepare nanocarriers for different applications, such as drug delivery, biosensor, nanoreactor and so on. Synthesis of new types
Wu, Dalin
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