Water-Soluble Knedel-like Structures:  The Preparation of Shell-Cross-Linked Small Particles

Hierarchically Ordered Montmorillonite Block Copolymer Brushes

“…155 The first reported instance of micelle corona crosslinking was by Wooley et al wherein polystyrene-bpoly(4-vinyl pyridine) (PS-/emphb-PVP) micelles were initially formed. 172 The PVP amine was then quaternized with p-(chloromethyl) styrene to produce a crosslinking agent which was then polymerized using a photo-initiator. The final micelles formed monodisperse spheres with little to no interparticle crosslinking as confirmed by AFM.…”

Synthesis and Solution Self‐Assembly of Polyisoprene‐block‐poly(ferrocenylmethylsilane): A Diblock Copolymer with an Atactic but Semicrystalline Core‐Forming Metalloblock

“…[340][341][342] BCPs that have corona-forming blocks such as PI and PMVS with pendant vinyl groups within the polymer backbone have been shown to undergo Ptcatalysed hydrosilylation crosslinking with tetramethyldisiloxane and Karstedt's catalyst, 221,[343][344][345][346] or by UV-initiated crosslinking. 34,347 As a result of this shell-crosslinking, the micellar structures are essentially locked in and are preserved even if they are transferred from a corona-selective solvent into a common solvent for both blocks.…”

ATRP Synthesis of poly(4‐bromostyrene)‐b‐poly(propylene glycol) block copolymer and its self‐assembly in catalystic emulsion polymerization to form luminescent nanospheres with core‐shell structure

“…1 The powerful and convenient method to prepare the nanospheres is the free radical emulsion polymerization, [2][3][4][5][6] especially for the synthesis of nanospheres on a large scale in industry. However, the difficulty in controlling particle size distribution in the range of 50 nm to 1 lm limits their applications of the nanospheres.…”