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Phenyl acrylate is a versatile monomer for the synthesis of acrylic diblock copolymer nano-objects via polymerization-induced self-assembly

Sarah L. Canning, Victoria J. Cunningham, Liam P. D. Ratcliffe, Steven P. Armes

Polymer Chemistry · 2017 · 45 citations · 82 references

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Poly(phenyl acrylate) has a sufficiently high glass transition temperature to enable TEM studies of the morphology of diblock copolymer nano-objects prepared using three different polymerization-induced self-assembly (PISA) formulations.

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