Nature materials volume 8 No 2 - pp144 - 150

Complex and hierarchical micelle architectures from diblock copolymers using living, crystallization-driven polymerizations -pp144 - 150

Torben Gädt, Nga Sze Ieong, Graeme Cambridge, Mitchell A. Winnik & Ian Manners

doi:10.1038/nmat2356

A synthetic tool that uses living polymerizations driven by epitaxial crystallization is shown to create a range of complex micelle architectures made from diblock copolymers. Platelet micelles act as initiators for the formation of scarf-like structures with micellar tassels of controlled length, grown from specific locations