Multicompartment micelles formed from star-dendritic triblock copolymers in selective solvents: A dissipative particle dynamics study

Polymer ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 49 (5) ◽  
pp. 1407-1413 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dahuan Liu ◽  
Chongli Zhong
2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 4074-4082 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yun Jin ◽  
Danyi Guo ◽  
Bo Li ◽  
Shouping Xu ◽  
Jiang Cheng ◽  
...  

Self-assembly behaviors of POSS-based triblock copolymers were studied by DPD, and the results were in qualitative agreement with the experimental data.


RSC Advances ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (71) ◽  
pp. 58024-58031 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chun Zhou ◽  
Honggang Xia ◽  
Yang Zhou ◽  
Xianggui Xue ◽  
Shikai Luo

Due to the great potential in the field of multifunctional nanoreactors and carriers, several previous works have shown the interesting morphologies of multicompartment micelles from simple linear ABC triblock copolymers in solutions.


2011 ◽  
Vol 25 (06) ◽  
pp. 843-850
Author(s):  
XI SHAO ◽  
KAI YANG ◽  
YU-QIANG MA

Multicompartment micelles have advanced applications in biological and pharmaceutical fields. The self-assembly of the block copolymers with different chain architectures provides versatile and powerful routes to obtain multicompartment micelles in water. Here we apply the dissipative particle dynamics method to study the self-assembly of H-shaped triblock copolymers in a selective solvent. It is found that the H-shaped triblock copolymers can form micelles with different morphologies, such as worm-like micelles, hamburger micelles, core-shell-corona micelles, and cylinder micelles, etc. Among them, the cylinder micelles have not been reported before in the case of the copolymers with similar chain architecture (e.g., Y-shaped copolymer). We demonstrate a convenient approach to obtain different morphologies by only adjusting the arrangement of the copolymers' blocks. These results may be helpful for the design of multicompartment micelles for various application purposes.


Polymers ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 1516
Author(s):  
Dongmei Liu ◽  
Kai Gong ◽  
Ye Lin ◽  
Tao Liu ◽  
Yu Liu ◽  
...  

We investigated the interfacial properties of symmetric ternary An/AmBm/Bn and An/Am/2BmAm/2/Bn polymeric blends by means of dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) simulations. We systematically analyzed the effects of composition, chain length, and concentration of the copolymers on the interfacial tensions, interfacial widths, and the structures of each polymer component in the blends. Our simulations show that: (i) the efficiency of the copolymers in reducing the interfacial tension is highly dependent on their compositions. The triblock copolymers are more effective in reducing the interfacial tension compared to that of the diblock copolymers at the same chain length and concentration; (ii) the interfacial tension of the blends increases with increases in the triblock copolymer chain length, which indicates that the triblock copolymers with a shorter chain length exhibit a better performance as the compatibilizers compared to that of their counterparts with longer chain lengths; and (iii) elevating the triblock copolymer concentration can promote copolymer enrichment at the center of the interface, which enlarges the width of the phase interfaces and reduces the interfacial tension. These findings illustrate the correlations between the efficiency of copolymer compatibilizers and their detailed molecular parameters.


2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 921-928 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiawei Li ◽  
Junfeng Wang ◽  
Qiang Yao ◽  
Yan Zhang ◽  
Youguo Yan ◽  
...  

ABA triblock copolymers have been demonstrated to be able to produce a biphasic effect on the self-assembly of surfactants.


2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (8) ◽  
pp. 6284-6290 ◽  
Author(s):  
Byeong Jae Chun ◽  
Christina Clare Fisher ◽  
Seung Soon Jang

We investigate multicompartment micelles for nanoreactor applications, using the DPD simulation method to characterize the internal structure and the distribution of the reactant.


Soft Matter ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (26) ◽  
pp. 6056-6062 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xianggui Ye ◽  
Bamin Khomami

Large-scale dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) simulations have been performed to investigate the self-assembly of over 20 000 linear diblock copolymer chains in a selective solvent.


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