http://nathan.instras.com/ResearchProposalDB/doc-109.pdf

A review on polymer nanofibers by electrospinning and their applications in nanocomposites

Block copolymer micelles for drug delivery: design, characterization and biological significance

http://wwwcourses.sens.buffalo.edu/ce435/Riess03.pdf

Micellization of block copolymers

Tissue-engineering scaffolds should be analogous to native extracellular matrix (ECM) in terms of both chemical composition and physical structure Polymeric nanofiber matrix is similar, with its nanoscaled nonwoven fibrous ECM proteins, and thus is a candidate ECM-mimetic material Techniques such as electrospinning to produce polymeric nanofibers have stimulated researchers to explore the application of nanofiber matrix as a tissue-engineering scaffold This review covers the preparation and modification of polymeric nanofiber matrix in the development of future tissue-engineering scaffolds Major emphasis is also given to the development and applications of aligned, core shell-structured, or surface-functionalized polymer nanofibers The potential application of polymer nanofibers extends far beyond tissue engineering Owing to their high surface area, functionalized polymer nanofibers will find broad applications as drug delivery carriers, biosensors, and molecular filtration membranes in future

Potential of nanofiber matrix as tissue-engineering scaffolds.

Supramolecular self assembly techniques have provided a versatile means by which to selectively assemble polymer molecules into well-defined three dimensional core-shell nanostructures. The covalent stabilisation and tailoring of these dynamic nanostructures can be achieved using a range of chemistries within the assembly to afford robust functional nanoparticles. Many examples of the stabilisation, functionalisation and decoration of these nanoparticles have been reported in the literature and this tutorial review will focus on these recent developments and highlight their potential applications.

https://www.chem.tamu.edu/rgroup/wooley/chem689/Articles/CHEM%20689-Supp/CHEM%20689-Supp/Stabilization%20and%20Functionalization.pdf

Cross-linked block copolymer micelles: functional nanostructures of great potential and versatility

Polystyrene-block-poly(2-cinnamoylethyl methacrylate) (PS-b-PCEMA) formed micelles in THF/cyclohexane or chloroform/cyclohexane mixtures with the PCEMA block as the core. Depending on the relative length of the PS and PCEMA block, star and crewcut micelles were prepared. Upon UV irradiation, the PCEMA block selectively cross-linked to form star polymers and nanospheres from the corresponding star and crewcut micelles. The cross-linked micelles were characterized by solution and solid-state NMR, FTIR, GPC, TEM, and dynamic and static light scattering.

Star Polymers and Nanospheres from Cross-Linkable Diblock Copolymers

Diblock Copolymer Nanofibers

Polystyrene‐block‐poly(2‐cinnamoylethyl methacrylate) Nanofibers—Preparation, Characterization, and Liquid Crystalline Properties

Potential Skin Layers for Membranes with Tunable Nanochannels

Polystyrene-block-poly(2-cinnamoylethyl methacrylate) (PS-b-PCEMA) polymers of different asymmetric ratios, β, and numbers, m, of CEMA units were synthesized and characterized. In cyclopentane/THF mixtures, the polymers were adsorbed by silica mainly via the PCEMA block in the brush conformation. For samples with β values greater than 4, their surface adsorption data could be well explained by the theory of Marques et al. for diblock adsorption from micelle solutions in the van der Waals−buoy regime. This represents the first experimental confirmation of such a scaling relation. On silver surfaces, the PCEMA block was the main adsorbing species for samples with small β and large m, and both the PS and PCEMA blocks adsorbed for samples with large β and small m values. As polymer brushes are not formed from certain polymers, the data of polymer adsorption by silver did not follow the scaling relation of Marques et al.

Andrew Guo

Papers

Star Polymers and Nanospheres from Cross-Linkable Diblock Copolymers

Diblock Copolymer Nanofibers

Polystyrene‐block‐poly(2‐cinnamoylethyl methacrylate) Nanofibers—Preparation, Characterization, and Liquid Crystalline Properties

Potential Skin Layers for Membranes with Tunable Nanochannels

Polystyrene-block-poly(2-cinnamoylethyl methacrylate) Adsorption in the van der Waals−Buoy Regime