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Block copolymer solution self-assembly: Recent advances, emerging trends, and applications

Maria Karayianni, +1 more
- 01 Sep 2021 - 
- Vol. 59, Iss: 17, pp 1874-1898
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This article is published in Journal of Polymer Science.The article was published on 2021-09-01 and is currently open access. It has received 49 citations till now.

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Guided hierarchical co-assembly of soft, patchy nanopartcles

TL;DR: It is established how molecular control over polymer composition programs the building block symmetries and regulates particle positioning, offering a route to well-ordered mixed mesostructures of high complexity.
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π-Conjugated-polymer-based nanofibers through living crystallization-driven self-assembly: preparation, properties and applications.

TL;DR: In this article, the influence of the structure of π-conjugated-polymer-containing block copolymers (BCPs) and experimental conditions on the CDSA behaviors, especially seeded growth and self-seeding processes of living CDSA, has been discussed in detail, aiming to provide an in-depth overview of living CPNF-based self-assembly.
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The role of cooling rate in crystallization-driven block copolymer self-assembly

- 01 Jan 2022 - 
TL;DR: In this article , the authors examined three systems based upon poly(ferrocenyldimethylsilane) BCPs that generated uniform micelles under typical conditions where cooling took pace on the 1-2 h time scale.
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Mesoporous carbons from self‐assembled polymers

TL;DR: In this article , the progress and opportunities of self-assembled polymer in the synthesis of mesoporous carbons (MCs) have aroused significant research interests over the past decades, and two most established approaches for converting nanostructured polymers to MCs, including templating-based and direct pyrolysis-based methods, are discussed.
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Uniform, Length-Tunable Antibacterial 1D Diblock Copolymer Nanofibers

TL;DR: The rapid increase in antibiotic resistant strains of bacteria has led to an urgent need to develop new methods of treating bacterial infections, and antibacterial polymeric nanoparticles are of interest for this purpose.
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