Nature Communications (Aug 2016)

Microfibres and macroscopic films from the coordination-driven hierarchical self-assembly of cylindrical micelles

  • David J. Lunn,
  • Oliver E. C. Gould,
  • George R. Whittell,
  • Daniel P. Armstrong,
  • Kenneth P. Mineart,
  • Mitchell A. Winnik,
  • Richard J. Spontak,
  • Paul G. Pringle,
  • Ian Manners

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12371
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Anisotropic nanoparticles made from block copolymers are important building blocks for synthetic hierarchical materials. Here, the authors report a reversible coordination-driven self-assembly strategy for the preparation of micron-scale fibres and macroscopic films based on monodisperse cylindrical micelles.