Pointed‐Oval‐Shaped Micelles from Crystalline‐Coil Block Copolymers by Crystallization‐Driven Living Self‐Assembly

Abstract

Getting in shape: Stable pointed-oval-shaped micelles of uniform size and shape (see TEM image) were prepared by extending the crystallization-driven living self-assembly method to crystalline core-forming polyferrocenylsilane diblock copolymers with corona-forming coblocks of poly(2-vinylpyridine) and polyphosphazene. The pointed-oval-shaped micelles were subsequently used as precursors to hierarchical micelle architectures.