Kinetic Control of Aggregation Shape in Micellar Self-Assembly.
Axel-Laurenz BuckinxKirsten VerstraeteEvelien BaetenRico F TaborAnna SokolovaNeomy ZaquenTanja JunkersPublished 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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