Xinfei Yu

TL;DR: In this article, a unique approach to the design and synthesis of giant molecules based on "nanoatoms" for engineering structures across multiple length scales and controlling their macroscopic properties is presented.

TL;DR: A novel giant surfactant possessing a well-defined hydrophilic head and a hydrophobic polymeric tail, polystyrene-(carboxylic acid-functionalized polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane) conjugate (PS-APOSS), has been designed and synthesized via living anionic polymerization, hydrosilylation, and thiol-ene "click" chemistry.

TL;DR: A unique class of self-assembling materials, built upon shape- and volume-persistent molecular nanoparticles and other structural motifs, and can be viewed as a size-amplified version of the corresponding small-molecule counterparts are introduced, suggesting that this class of materials provides a versatile platform for engineering nanostructures with sub-10-nm feature sizes.

TL;DR: The stretching ratio of PS tails decreased with increasing PS tail length in the spherical micelles of PS(n)-AC(60), indicating a micellar behavior that changes from small molecular surfactant-like to amphiphilic block copolymer-like.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors reported a morphological transition from vesicles to wormlike cylinders and further to spheres as the degree of ionization of the carboxylic acid groups on POSS heads increases.