Structural Properties of Micelles Formed by Telechelic Pentablock Quaterpolymers with pH-Responsive Midblocks and Thermoresponsive End Blocks in Aqueous Solution
Structural Properties of Micelles Formed by Telechelic Pentablock Quaterpolymers with pH-Responsive Midblocks and Thermoresponsive End Blocks in Aqueous Solution
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10.1021/acs.macromol.9b01775
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2019-12
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5.5
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Florian A. Jung;Panayiota A. Panteli;Chia-Hsin Ko;Jia Kang;L. Barnsley;C. Tsitsilianis;C. S. Patrickios;C. Papadakis
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Florian A. Jung;Panayiota A. Panteli;Chia-Hsin Ko;Jia Kang;L. Barnsley;C. Tsitsilianis;C. S. Patrickios;C. Papadakis
We investigated the structural properties of dynamic micelles arising from the self-assembly of the multiresponsive pentablock quaterpolymer P(nBuMA8-co-TEGMA8)-b-PDMAEMA50-b-PEG46-b-PDMAEMA50-b-P(nBuMA8-co-TEGMA8) (nBuMA, TEGMA, DMAEMA, and EG are n-butyl methacrylate, tri(ethylene glycol) methyl ether methacrylate, 2-(dimethylamino)ethyl methacrylate, and ethylene glycol, respectively) in aqueous solution using a combination of scattering methods. In this multisegmented polymer, a pH-responsive BAB triblock copolymer from the weak cationic polyelectrolyte PDMAEMA and the hydrophilic PEG is end-capped by two blocks comprising random sequences of thermoresponsive TEGMA units and hydrophobic nBuMA units. Dynamic light scattering revealed the existence of single micelles and small clusters in dilute aqueous solution. The hydrodynamic radius of the micelles depends strongly on pH and temperature. The inner structure of the micelles was investigated by small-angle X-ray scattering, small-angle neutron scatter...