Polymer micelle-directed growth of BaCO3 spiral nanobelts

Wenjie Zhu; Chunhua Cai; Jiaping Lin; Liquan Wang; Lili Chen; Zeliang Zhuang

doi:10.1039/C2CC33197G

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Polymer micelle-directed growth of BaCO₃ spiral nanobelts†

Wenjie Zhu,^a Chunhua Cai,^a Jiaping Lin,*^a Liquan Wang,^a Lili Chen^a and Zeliang Zhuang^a

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^a Shanghai Key Laboratory of Advanced Polymeric Materials, State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, Key Laboratory for Ultrafine Materials of Ministry of Education, School of Materials Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China
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Abstract

We discovered that micelles of a thermo-responsive polypeptide-based copolymer are able to direct growth of barium carbonate (BaCO₃) in the form of nanobelts. The BaCO₃ nanobelts tend to grow around a formed crystal, and curl into a spiral superstructure.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/C2CC33197G
Article type: Communication
Submitted: 04 May 2012
Accepted: 03 Jul 2012
First published: 03 Jul 2012

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Chem. Commun., 2012,48, 8544-8546

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Polymer micelle-directed growth of BaCO₃ spiral nanobelts

W. Zhu, C. Cai, J. Lin, L. Wang, L. Chen and Z. Zhuang, Chem. Commun., 2012, 48, 8544 DOI: 10.1039/C2CC33197G

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