Hamburger micelles

Fig. 8 Multicompartment micelle formation from p-EOF star terpolymers and binary blends of p-EOF/EO. (a) Hamburger micelle from p-EOF with a very long PEO block, (b) Segmented wormlike micelle from p-EOF with a short PEO block, (c) Hamburger micelle from blends of p-EOF/EO. Reprinted with permission from Hillmyer et al. [79]. Copyright 2006 American...

Recently, Hillmyer et al. reported that unique molecular assemblies such as multicompartment wormlike and hamburger micelles were formed from some ABC star-branched polymers composed of water-soluble poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) and fluorophilic poly(perfluoropropylene oxide) segments [261, 262]. 

Figure 17 Schematic illustration of a multicompartment micelle from (PE0)(PEE)(PFP0) miktoarm stars and binary blends of (PE0)(PEE) (PFPO) with PEO (a) hamburger micelle from the miktoarm star with a very long PEO block (0), (b) segmented wormlike micelle from the star with a short PEO block (0), and (c) hamburger micelle from blends (PEO) (PEE)(PFPO)/PEO. Reprinted from Li, Z. Hillmyer, M. A. Lodge, T. P. Macromolecules 2006, 39, 765. " °...

Figure 18 Schematic representation of self-assembled micellar structures of (PE0)(PEE)(PyM8CL) miktoarm stars (a) hamburger micelle,...

Fig. 10 Structure of a -((PEE)-(PEO)-(poly(/-methyl-e-caprolactone))) miktoarm block terpoly-mer, along with schematic representations and cryo-TEM micrographs of the resulting self-assembled micellar structures hamburger , segmented worm-like and raspberry micelles (from left to right). Reproduced with permission from [56]. Copyright (2008) American Chemical Society...

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