Characterization techniques for nanoparticles: comparison and complementarity upon studying nanoparticle properties

S Mourdikoudis, RM Pallares, NTK Thanh - Nanoscale, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Nanostructures have attracted huge interest as a rapidly growing class of materials for many
applications. Several techniques have been used to characterize the size, crystal structure …

Self-assembly of block copolymers

Y Mai, A Eisenberg - Chemical Society Reviews, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Block copolymer (BCP) self-assembly has attracted considerable attention for many
decades because it can yield ordered structures in a wide range of morphologies, including …

Design of polymeric nanoparticles for biomedical delivery applications

M Elsabahy, KL Wooley - Chemical Society Reviews, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Polymeric nanoparticles-based therapeutics show great promise in the treatment of a wide
range of diseases, due to the flexibility in which their structures can be modified, with …

Supramolecular polymerization through kinetic pathway control and living chain growth

M Wehner, F Würthner - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2020 - nature.com
Supramolecular polymers exhibit fascinating structures, and their properties, and thus
applications, depend both on the strength and dynamics of the non-covalent bonds and on …

Supramolecular polymerization

TFA De Greef, MMJ Smulders, M Wolffs… - Chemical …, 2009 - ACS Publications
1.1 Background In his historic review titled “Polymerization” in Chemical Reviews of 1931,
Wallace H. Carothers described his brilliant ideas about the rapidly develo** field of …

Polymerization-induced self-assembly of block copolymer nano-objects via RAFT aqueous dispersion polymerization

NJ Warren, SP Armes - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2014 - ACS Publications
In this Perspective, we discuss the recent development of polymerization-induced self-
assembly mediated by reversible addition–fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) aqueous …

Ag2CrO4/g-C3N4/graphene oxide ternary nanocomposite Z-scheme photocatalyst with enhanced CO2 reduction activity

D Xu, B Cheng, W Wang, C Jiang, J Yu - Applied Catalysis B …, 2018 - Elsevier
Graphitic carbon nitride (gC 3 N 4)-based photocatalysts holds great promise on
photocatalytic CO 2 conversion into solar fules; however, the efficiency of pristine gC 3 N 4 is …

Supramolecular polymers in aqueous media

E Krieg, MMC Bastings, P Besenius… - Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
This review discusses one-dimensional supramolecular polymers that form in aqueous
media. First, naturally occurring supramolecular polymers are described, in particular …

Self‐assembled block copolymer aggregates: from micelles to vesicles and their biological applications

A Blanazs, SP Armes, AJ Ryan - Macromolecular rapid …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
The ability of amphiphilic block copolymers to self‐assemble in selective solvents has been
widely studied in academia and utilized for various commercial products. The self …

Polymeric micelle stability

SC Owen, DPY Chan, MS Shoichet - Nano today, 2012 - Elsevier
Polymeric micelles provide a platform that can be carefully tuned for drug delivery. The nano-
scale aggregates form spontaneously in aqueous solution and can be used to overcome …