Nature Communications (Jun 2016)

Rational design of ABC triblock terpolymer solution nanostructures with controlled patch morphology

  • Tina I. Löbling,
  • Oleg Borisov,
  • Johannes S. Haataja,
  • Olli Ikkala,
  • André H. Gröschel,
  • Axel H. E. Müller

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12097
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Self-assembly of diblock copolymers into useful nanostructures is well understood, unlike the solution self-assembly of triblock copolymers. Here, Müller and co-workers provide guidelines for the self-assembly of linear ABC triblock terpolymers into different multicompartment nanostructures.