Temperature driven self-assembly of amphiphilic block copolymers in water.

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Amphiphilic copolymers with perfluoroalkyl blocks provide self-assembled nanostructures, in water, via the association and/or self-folding of the copolymer chains. This feature can be used for "green nanochemistry" or to design drug delivery systems. The folding of single chains of a block copolymer into nanoparticles has been assessed by dynamic light scattering (DLS) and by SANS2D Xpress experiment. Such polymers have an additional attractive feature: the polymer displays a self-assembly process not far from physiological temperature. DLS results indicate a sharp transition temperature with the formation of monodisperse particles with size distribution centered around 1 micron. In the proposed experiment the surface of the particle (roughness, block distribution) around the transition temperature will be investigated to optimize the association or the coupling with functional molecules

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.87868707
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/87868707
Provenance
Creator Mrs Elisa Guazzelli; Dr Robert Dalgliesh; Professor Giancarlo Galli; Dr Fabio Domenici; Dr Mark Telling; Professor Gaio Paradossi; Dr Najet Mahmoudi
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2020
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Biology; Biomaterials; Engineering Sciences; Life Sciences; Materials Science; Materials Science and Engineering
Temporal Coverage Begin 2017-11-30T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2017-12-05T00:00:00Z