Supramolecular assemblies from amphiphilic homopolymers: testing the scope

…, SV Aathimanikandan, S Thayumanavan

Index: Savariar, Elamprakash N.; Aathimanikandan, Sivakumar V.; Thayumanavan Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2006 , vol. 128, # 50 p. 16224 - 16230

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Abstract

It has been shown by us in a recent communication that homopolymers, in which each repeat unit contains a hydrophilic and a hydrophobic head group, are capable of forming environment-dependent micellar or inverse micellar assemblies. A systematic structure- property relationship study is carried out here to test the scope of the design. We show here that the molecular design is indeed broadly applicable and that there is a significant gain ...