Kinetic Control of Aggregation Shape in Micellar Self-Assembly.

Axel-Laurenz BuckinxKirsten VerstraeteEvelien BaetenRico F Tabor Anna SokolovaNeomy ZaquenTanja Junkers

Published in: Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) (2019)

The first steps towards top-down morphology control in micellar self-assembly are introduced. Kinetically stable micelles are formed from block copolymers (BCPs) using continuous flow techniques by turbulent mixing of water with a THF solution of polymers. In this way, particle shape and size can be altered from spheres to ellipsoids solely via tuning of mixing parameters from a single BCP.

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