HYBER article in ACS Nano Perspective
In the ACS Nano Perspective Polymers Zippered-Up by Electric Charge Reveal Themselves Tsang, Yu and Granick write: "We call attention to a beautiful embodiment of this modern pattern: writing in this issue of ACS Nano with two equal first authors and eight coauthors in toto, a publication that unites four academic institutions and two countries.Their idea was to build upward from ampholytic triblock terpolymers, designed to form polymer micelles with negatively charged coronae. While their laboratory previously reported such 鈥渙nion鈥 or 鈥渃ore-shell-corona鈥 structures, Coulombic attractions with additional charged chains give added value: they zipper the micelles together to form interpolyelectrolyte complexes with cationic/neutral diblock copolymers."
"In the current issue of ACS Nano, L枚bling, Haataja et al. craft polymeric nanoparticles with a hierarchy of nontrivial surface structures by combining conventional interpolyelectrolyte complexation with steric control from an uncharged copolymer block. Remarkable cylindrical and lamellar nanodomains are produced on the polyionic coronae of spherical micelles. Here, we discuss generalizing this elegant self-assembly strategy and provide speculative perspectives for its future potential for new nanomaterials."
Original article:
Hidden Structural Features of Multicompartment Micelles Revealed by Cryogenic Transmission Electron Tomography
by Tina I. L枚bling 鈥, Johannes S. Haataja 鈥, Christopher V. Synatschke 鈥, Felix H. Schacher 搂, Melanie M眉ller 鈥, Andreas Hanisch 鈥, Andr茅 H. Gr枚schel *鈥, and Axel H. E. M眉ller *鈥犫垾
ACS Nano, 8 (2014)
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