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Qiu H, Hudson ZM, Winnik MA, et al. Micelle assembly. Multidimensional hierarchical self-assembly of amphiphilic cylindrical block comicelles. Science. 2015;347(6228):1329-32doi: 10.1126/science.1261816.
Qiu, H., Hudson, Z. M., Winnik, M. A., & Manners, I. (2015). Micelle assembly. Multidimensional hierarchical self-assembly of amphiphilic cylindrical block comicelles. Science (New York, N.Y.), 347(6228), 1329-32. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1261816
Qiu, Huibin, et al. "Micelle assembly. Multidimensional hierarchical self-assembly of amphiphilic cylindrical block comicelles." Science (New York, N.Y.) vol. 347,6228 (2015): 1329-32. doi: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1261816
Qiu H, Hudson ZM, Winnik MA, Manners I. Micelle assembly. Multidimensional hierarchical self-assembly of amphiphilic cylindrical block comicelles. Science. 2015 Mar 20;347(6228):1329-32. doi: 10.1126/science.1261816. PMID: 25792323.
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Science. 2015 Mar 20;347(6228):1329-32. doi: 10.1126/science.1261816.

Micelle assembly. Multidimensional hierarchical self-assembly of amphiphilic cylindrical block comicelles.

Science (New York, N.Y.)

Huibin Qiu, Zachary M Hudson, Mitchell A Winnik, Ian Manners

Affiliations

  1. School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TS, UK.
  2. Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H6, Canada. [email protected] [email protected].
  3. School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TS, UK. [email protected] [email protected].

PMID: 25792323 DOI: 10.1126/science.1261816

Abstract

Self-assembly of molecular and block copolymer amphiphiles represents a well-established route to micelles with a wide variety of shapes and gel-like phases. We demonstrate an analogous process, but on a longer length scale, in which amphiphilic P-H-P and H-P-H cylindrical triblock comicelles with hydrophobic (H) or polar (P) segments that are monodisperse in length are able to self-assemble side by side or end to end in nonsolvents for the central or terminal segments, respectively. This allows the formation of cylindrical supermicelles and one-dimensional (1D) or 3D superstructures that persist in both solution and the solid state. These assemblies possess multiple levels of structural hierarchy in combination with existence on a multimicrometer-length scale, features that are generally only found in natural materials.

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