Recent Advances in Polymerization‐Induced Self‐Assembly (PISA) Syntheses in Non‐Polar Media

C György, SP Armes - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
It is well‐known that polymerization‐induced self‐assembly (PISA) is a powerful and highly
versatile technique for the rational synthesis of colloidal dispersions of diblock copolymer …

Degradable Block Copolymer Nanoparticles Synthesized by Polymerization‐Induced Self‐Assembly

S Zhang, R Li, Z An - Angewandte Chemie, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Polymerization‐induced self‐assembly (PISA) combines polymerization and in situ self‐
assembly of block copolymers in one system and has become a widely used method to …

Enhanced Adsorption of Epoxy‐Functional Nanoparticles onto Stainless Steel Significantly Reduces Friction in Tribological Studies

C György, PM Kirkman, TJ Neal, DHH Chan… - Angewandte …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Epoxy‐functional sterically‐stabilized diblock copolymer nanoparticles (ca. 27 nm) are
prepared via RAFT dispersion polymerization in mineral oil. Nanoparticle adsorption onto …

Polymerization-induced self-assembly for efficient fabrication of biomedical nanoplatforms

X Zhao, C Sun, F **ong, T Wang, S Li, F Huo, X Yao - Research, 2023 - spj.science.org
Amphiphilic copolymers can self-assemble into nano-objects in aqueous solution. However,
the self-assembly process is usually performed in a diluted solution (< 1 wt%), which greatly …

Efficient Synthesis and PISA Behavior of Molecular Bottlebrush Block Copolymers via a Grafting-From Strategy through RAFT Dispersion Polymerization

W Hou, J Wu, Z Li, Z Zhang, Y Shi, Y Chen - Macromolecules, 2023 - ACS Publications
Precise synthesis of molecular bottlebrushes (MBBs) with high yield via the grafting-from
strategy using a reversible deactivation radical polymerization (RDRP) technique has …

Reversible crowdedness of pH-responsive and host–guest active polymersomes: Mimicking µm-sized cell structures

K Zhang, Y Zhou, S Moreno, S Schwarz, S Boye… - Journal of Colloid and …, 2024 - Elsevier
The structure–function characteristics of isolated artificial organelles (AOs) in protocells are
mainly known, but there are few reports on clustered or aggregated AOs. To imitate µm …

RAFT Dispersion Polymerization of 2-Hydroxyethyl Methacrylate in Non-polar Media

P Chohan, C György, OO Mykhaylyk… - …, 2024 - ACS Publications
We report the reversible addition–fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) dispersion
polymerization of 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate (HEMA) in n-dodecane using a poly (lauryl …

Ultra-confined controllable cyclic peptides as supramolecular biomaterials

MS Chorsi, W Linthicum, A Pozhidaeva, C Mundrane… - Nano Today, 2024 - Elsevier
The capacity to design molecules capable of orchestrated movements in response to
specific stimuli could yield functional biomaterials suitable for diverse innovative materials …

Chemical transformations during mechanoactivation of ε‐polylysine‐poly‐L‐lactic acid mixture to obtain amphiphilic copolymers

P Khaptakhanova, S Uspenskii… - Journal of Applied …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In this study presents a new strategy for the preparation of amphiphilic copolymers of ε‐
polylysine (PL) and poly‐L‐lactic acid (PLA) using one‐step pulsed mechanochemical …

Efficient synthesis of bottle-brush polymers enabled by selective photoactivation strategy in NIR-induced PET-RAFT polymerization

H Zha, L Cheng, Z Wang, C Liu, C Hong - Science China Chemistry, 2024 - Springer
Bottle-brush polymers possessing densely grafted side chains have special properties that
are distinct from linear macromolecules. Herein, an efficient method for preparing bottle …