Semipermeable Polymer Vesicle (PICsome) Self-Assembled in Aqueous Medium from a Pair of Oppositely Charged Block Copolymers:  Physiologically Stable Micro-/Nanocontainers of Water-Soluble Macromolecules

2006 ◽  
Vol 128 (18) ◽  
pp. 5988-5989 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aya Koide ◽  
Akihiro Kishimura ◽  
Kensuke Osada ◽  
Woo-Dong Jang ◽  
Yuichi Yamasaki ◽  
...  
RSC Advances ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 2455-2463 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nabendu B. Pramanik ◽  
Nikhil K. Singha

Amphiphilic BCPs, PFMA-b-PPEGMA were prepared via RAFT polymerization. They were self-assembled into micelles in aqueous medium with a hydrophobic PFMA core and hydrophilic PPEGMA corona. Core cross-linked micelles were prepared via the DA reaction.


2020 ◽  
Vol 53 (13) ◽  
pp. 5638-5648 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brandon A. Fultz ◽  
Tanguy Terlier ◽  
Beatriz Dunoyer de Segonzac ◽  
Rafael Verduzco ◽  
Justin G. Kennemur

Polymers ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 502
Author(s):  
Karel Šindelka ◽  
Zuzana Limpouchová ◽  
Karel Procházka

Using coarse-grained dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) with explicit electrostatics, we performed (i) an extensive series of simulations of the electrostatic co-assembly of asymmetric oppositely charged copolymers composed of one (either positively or negatively charged) polyelectrolyte (PE) block A and one water-soluble block B and (ii) studied the solubilization of positively charged porphyrin derivatives (P+) in the interpolyelectrolyte complex (IPEC) cores of co-assembled nanoparticles. We studied the stoichiometric mixtures of 137 A10+B25 and 137 A10−B25 chains with moderately hydrophobic A blocks (DPD interaction parameter aAS=35) and hydrophilic B blocks (aBS=25) with 10 to 120 P+ added (aPS=39). The P+ interactions with other components were set to match literature information on their limited solubility and aggregation behavior. The study shows that the moderately soluble P+ molecules easily solubilize in IPEC cores, where they partly replace PE+ and electrostatically crosslink PE− blocks. As the large P+ rings are apt to aggregate, P+ molecules aggregate in IPEC cores. The aggregation, which starts at very low loadings, is promoted by increasing the number of P+ in the mixture. The positively charged copolymers repelled from the central part of IPEC core partially concentrate at the core-shell interface and partially escape into bulk solvent depending on the amount of P+ in the mixture and on their association number, AS. If AS is lower than the ensemble average ⟨AS⟩n, the copolymer chains released from IPEC preferentially concentrate at the core-shell interface, thus increasing AS, which approaches ⟨AS⟩n. If AS>⟨AS⟩n, they escape into the bulk solvent.


Langmuir ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 25 (8) ◽  
pp. 4735-4742 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liquan Wang ◽  
Jiaping Lin ◽  
Liangshun Zhang

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (45) ◽  
pp. 6895-6900 ◽  
Author(s):  
Biswajit Saha ◽  
Kamal Bauri ◽  
Arijit Bag ◽  
Pradip K. Ghorai ◽  
Priyadarsi De

Herein, we have designed and synthesized a novel traditional fluorophore-free water-soluble fluorescent copolymer based on a poly(maleimide-alt-styrene) skeleton, which responds to both pH and temperature in aqueous medium.


2014 ◽  
Vol 16 (27) ◽  
pp. 13974-13983 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. N. Kuzovkov ◽  
G. Zvejnieks ◽  
E. A. Kotomin

The 3d structure of self-assembled and oppositely charged nanoparticles.


2012 ◽  
Vol 18 (39) ◽  
pp. 12322-12329 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dipak Samanta ◽  
Sandip Mukherjee ◽  
Yogesh P. Patil ◽  
Partha Sarathi Mukherjee

RSC Advances ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (113) ◽  
pp. 111928-111933 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qi Lin ◽  
Feng Zheng ◽  
Lu Liu ◽  
Peng-Peng Mao ◽  
You-Ming Zhang ◽  
...  

By rationally introducing competitive coordination, the supramolecular sensors could reversibly sense Fe3+ and F− in water with high selectivity and sensitivity.


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