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Chemical Communications

Thermally induced micelle to vesicle morphology transition for a charged chain end diblock copolymer†

Adam O. Moughtona  and  Rachel K. O’Reilly*ab  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

b Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
E-mail: R.K.O-Reilly@warwick.ac.uk
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Abstract

A quaternary amine end functionalised diblock copolymer (PtBuA-b-PNIPAM) has been synthesised using RAFT polymerisation and shown to undergo a thermally induced morphology transition from micelles to vesicles, as evidenced by TEM, AFM, SLS and DLS analyses.

Graphical abstract: Thermally induced micelle to vesicle morphology transition for a charged chain end diblock copolymer

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B922289H
Article type
Communication
Submitted
26 Oct 2009
Accepted
01 Dec 2009
First published
16 Dec 2009

Chem. Commun., 2010,46, 1091-1093

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A. O. Moughton and R. K. O’Reilly, Chem. Commun., 2010, 46, 1091 DOI: 10.1039/B922289H

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