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Polymer Single-Chain Nanoparticles: Shaping Solid Surfactants.

Shuailong LiShuyi SunJiaqiu LuoZhiqin XiaYaxin WangThomas P RussellShaowei ShiZhenzhong Yang
Published in: Macromolecular rapid communications (2024)
Polymer single-chain nanoparticles (SCNPs) have found a wide range of applications spanning catalysts, sensors and nanomedicine. The generation of structured SCNPs from star-shaped polymers with diverse architectures and functionalities affords a new avenue to expand the emerging research area. The large-scale synthesis of structured SCNPs is described by the electrostatics-mediated intramolecular crosslinking of three types of 3-armed star-shaped polymers (T-P4VP, T-PS-b-P4VP, and T-P4VP-b-PS), whose configuration is tunable from spherical to cage-shaped to dumbbell-shaped and star-shaped. The structured SCNPs are amphiphilic and can be used as solid surfactants to stabilize different types of emulsions.
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