Multicompartment Micelles Formed by Self‐Assembly of Linear ABC Triblock Copolymers in Aqueous Medium

Stephan Kubowicz, Jean‐François Baussard, Jean‐François Lutz, Andreas F. Thünemann, Hans von Berlepsch, André Laschewsky

Angewandte Chemie International Edition · 2005 · 298 citations · 29 references

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Abstract

Like a doughnut with a raspberry filling: ABC triblock copolymers, composed of a hydrophilic block with morpholinium units (blue in the picture), a hydrophobic hydrocarbon block (red), and a hydrophobic fluorocarbon-rich block (black), self-assemble in water to form multicompartment micelles with a hydrophilic corona and a hydrophobic core with nanometer-scale subdomains.

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