Effect of molecular architecture on the morphology diversity of the multicompartment micelles: A dissipative particle dynamics simulation study

Well-defined and stable nanomicelles self-assembled from brush cyclic and tadpole copolymer amphiphiles: a versatile smart carrier platform

“…11,15,18,22,23 Their stabilities were relatively higher than those of their linear analogues but still limited to a certain extent. 1,11,13,15,18,22,23 Thus, they have not yet been fully understood in the aspect of structural characteristics (shape, size, size distribution, structural components, density gradient, stability and so on). In fact, micelles have great potent for applications as a carrier system in various fields, such as drug delivery, biomedical imaging, foods, cosmetics, coatings, photonics and molecular electronics.…”

“…[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] In addition, cyclic block copolymers have received interest due to selfassembly characteristics that deviate from the typical behaviours of their linear analogues. 3,5,[11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24] In the case of micelle formation in solution, cyclic block copolymers were reported to form relatively more compact micelles than their linear analogues. [11][12][13]15,16,18,23 The cyclic block copolymer micelles, however, were very often evaluated qualitatively.…”

“…3,5,[11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24] In the case of micelle formation in solution, cyclic block copolymers were reported to form relatively more compact micelles than their linear analogues. [11][12][13]15,16,18,23 The cyclic block copolymer micelles, however, were very often evaluated qualitatively. 11,15,18,22,23 Their stabilities were relatively higher than those of their linear analogues but still limited to a certain extent.…”

“…[11][12][13]15,16,18,23 The cyclic block copolymer micelles, however, were very often evaluated qualitatively. 11,15,18,22,23 Their stabilities were relatively higher than those of their linear analogues but still limited to a certain extent. 1,11,13,15,18,22,23 Thus, they have not yet been fully understood in the aspect of structural characteristics (shape, size, size distribution, structural components, density gradient, stability and so on).…”

Blending-induced helical morphologies of confined linear triblock copolymers

“…Novel and hierarchical confined morphologies may exist in triblock copolymer and polymer blend systems because more interactions and structural parameters are involved compared with those of basic pure diblock copolymer systems [13][14][15][16]. Several structures of interest, including core-shell-corona, segmented-worm, hamburger-like and raspberrylike micelles formed by linear ABC triblock copolymers in the selective solvents have been revealed by dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) simulations [17][18][19][20]. For the self-assembly of linear or star triblock copolymers in the confined pores, a series of morphological phase diagrams have been established using self-consistent field theory and simulated annealing method [16,[21][22][23].…”