Thermally induced micelle to vesicle morphology transition for a charged chain end diblock copolymer
- PMID: 20126723
- DOI: 10.1039/b922289h
Thermally induced micelle to vesicle morphology transition for a charged chain end diblock copolymer
Abstract
A quaternary amine end functionalised diblock copolymer (PtBuA-b-PNIPAM) has been synthesised using RAFT polymerisation and shown to undergo a thermally induced morphology transition from micelles to vesicles, as evidenced by TEM, AFM, SLS and DLS analyses.