Uniform patchy and hollow rectangular platelet micelles from crystallizable polymer blends

• Published in: Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) Vol. 352; no. 6286; pp. 697 - 701
• Main Authors: Qiu, Huibin, Gao, Yang, Boott, Charlotte E., Gould, Oliver E. C., Harniman, Robert L., Miles, Mervyn J., Webb, Stephen E. D., Winnik, Mitchell A., Manners, Ian
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Association for the Advancement of Science 06.05.2016; The American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Subjects: Materials science; Polymers

The preparation of colloidally stable, self-assembled materials with tailorable solid or hollow two-dimensional (2D) structures represents a major challenge. We describe the formation of uniform, monodisperse rectangular platelet micelles of controlled size by means of seeded-growth methods that inv...