[HTML][HTML] Polymeric micelles in drug delivery: An insight of the techniques for their characterization and assessment in biorelevant conditions

M Ghezzi, S Pescina, C Padula, P Santi… - Journal of Controlled …, 2021 - Elsevier
Polymeric micelles, ie aggregation colloids formed in solution by self-assembling of
amphiphilic polymers, represent an innovative tool to overcome several issues related to …

Emerging applications for living crystallization-driven self-assembly

L MacFarlane, C Zhao, J Cai, H Qiu, I Manners - Chemical Science, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The use of crystallization as a tool to control the self-assembly of polymeric and molecular
amphiphiles in solution is attracting growing attention for the creation of non-spherical …

50th Anniversary Perspective: Functional Nanoparticles from the Solution Self-Assembly of Block Copolymers

U Tritschler, S Pearce, J Gwyther, GR Whittell… - …, 2017 - ACS Publications
This Perspective outlines recent advances concerning the formation and potential uses of
block copolymer micelles, a class of soft-matter-based nanoparticles of growing importance …

Tailored energy funneling in photocatalytic π-conjugated polymer nanofibers for high-performance hydrogen production

Y Zhang, J Tian, H Shaikh, HK MacKenzie… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The creation of artificial high-performance photosynthetic assemblies with a tailorable
antenna system to deliver absorbed solar energy to a photosynthetic reaction center …

Metallopolymers for advanced sustainable applications

Y Wang, D Astruc, AS Abd-El-Aziz - Chemical Society Reviews, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Since the development of metallopolymers, there has been tremendous interest in the
applications of this type of materials. The interest in these materials stems from their …

AIE-active, stimuli-responsive fluorescent 2D block copolymer nanoplatelets based on corona chain compression

S Lei, J Tian, Y Kang, Y Zhang… - Journal of the American …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Aggregation-induced emission (AIE) represents a powerful tool in nanoscience as a result of
enhanced luminescence in the condensed state. Although AIEgenic materials have been …

Two-dimensional assemblies from crystallizable homopolymers with charged termini

X He, MS Hsiao, CE Boott, RL Harniman, A Nazemi… - Nature materials, 2017 - nature.com
The creation of shaped, uniform and colloidally stable two-dimensional (2D) assemblies by
bottom-up methods represents a challenge of widespread current interest for a variety of …

Scalable and uniform 1D nanoparticles by synchronous polymerization, crystallization and self-assembly

CE Boott, J Gwyther, RL Harniman, DW Hayward… - Nature Chemistry, 2017 - nature.com
The preparation of well-defined nanoparticles based on soft matter, using solution-
processing techniques on a commercially viable scale, is a major challenge of widespread …

Colour-tunable fluorescent multiblock micelles

ZM Hudson, DJ Lunn, MA Winnik, I Manners - Nature communications, 2014 - nature.com
Emerging strategies based on the self-assembly of block copolymers have recently enabled
the bottom-up fabrication of nanostructured materials with spatially distinct functional …

Polyferrocenylsilanes: synthesis, properties, and applications

RLN Hailes, AM Oliver, J Gwyther, GR Whittell… - Chemical Society …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
This in-depth review covers progress in the area of polyferrocenylsilanes (PFS), a well-
established, readily accessible class of main chain organosilicon metallopolymer consisting …