Issue 11, 2019
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Silica cubosomes templated by a star polymer†

Congcong Cui, ORCID logo a   Lu Han ORCID logo *a  and  Shunai Che ORCID logo ab  

* Corresponding authors

a School of Chemical Science and Engineering, Tongji University, 1239 Siping Road, Shanghai, China
E-mail: luhan@tongji.edu.cn

b School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Metal Matrix Composites, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai, P. R. China

Abstract

The organization of amphiphilic molecules into well-defined geometries and morphologies is an area of fundamental and practical importance. Herein, we report silica cubosomes synthesized by the cooperative self-assembly of the amphiphilic star polymer poly(ethylene glycol)-(polystyrene)2. The silica cubosomes exhibit a spherical shape and a highly ordered bicontinuous diamond-surface structure. A new synthesis-field diagram was constructed based on the mass ratio of THF, HCl (2 M) and the polymer. Moreover, the mechanism of the formation of silica cubosomes has been revealed. Due to the inorganic framework, the silica cubosomes show enhanced stability and a wide scope of applications.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C8RA09130G
Article type
Paper
Submitted
04 Nov 2018
Accepted
05 Feb 2019
First published
19 Feb 2019
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

RSC Adv., 2019,9, 6118-6124

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Silica cubosomes templated by a star polymer

C. Cui, L. Han and S. Che, RSC Adv., 2019, 9, 6118 DOI: 10.1039/C8RA09130G

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