Amphiphilic and Double-Hydrophilic Core-Shell Cylindrical Brushes

6 Amphiphilic and Double-Hydrophilic Core-Shell Cylindrical Brushes 

Core-shell cylindrical brushes have gained increasing interest due to their unique properties and applications as nano-templates. Thus, Matyjaszewski et al. and our group first prepared core-shell brushes [30, 134], We have been studying core-shell brushes containing ionic blocks [30, 31], Amphiphilic and double hydrophilic coreshell brushes were prepared and studied for their solution properties. 

Simulation work using Monte Carlo (MC) methods have proved that a selective solvent, which is good for the shell but bad for the core, leads to instability in the 

We also prepared double hydrophilic core-shell brushes with PMAA as the core and poly(oligoethyleneglycol methacrylate) (POEGMA) as the shell. Due to the weak polyelectrolyte nature of the PMAA, at low pH the brushes also showed typical pearl-necklace conformations, whereas at high pH the core adopts more extended structures [158], The polychelates of the brush and Fe3+ behave in a similar way to the amphiphilic polychelates. 

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