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One-pot synthesis of linear triblock terpolymers and their aqueous self-assembly

  • NYU Molecular Design Institute Department of Chemistry, New York University, 100 Washington Square East, Room 1001 New York, NY 10003-6688 USA (map)

Graduate student Eman Ahmed and post-doctoral student Tyler Womble collaborated with the Jang group at Georgia Tech to investigate the self-assembly behavior of triblock terpolymers into multicompartment micelles. Linear triblock terpolymers containing hydrophilic, lipophilic and fluorophilic domains were synthesized using ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP). Our scaffold design offers an efficient approach for the synthesis of the target materials with fast polymerization kinetics, complete block incorporation and control over block sequence. Micelles with “Core–shell–corona”, “disk-like”, “raspberry-like” and “worm-like” morphologies were observed by cryogenic transmission electron microscopy and dissipative particle dynamics simulations. This work is the first report of the assembly of multicompartment micelles by linear triblock terpolymers synthesized using ROMP. Check it out here.


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