Poly micelles

Stigter, D, Kinetic Charge of Colloidal Electrolytes from Conductance and Electrophoresis. Detergent Micelles, Poly(methacrylates), and DNA in Univalent Salt Solutions, Journal of Physical Chemistry 83, 1670, 1979. 

Kabanove, A.V. Batrakova, E.V. Melik-Nubarov, N.S. Fedoseev, N.A. Dorodnich, T.Yu Alakhov, V.Yu. Chekhonin, V.P. Nazarova, I.R. Kabanov, V.A. A new class of drug carriers micelle poly(oxyethylene)-poly-(oxypropylene) block copolymers as microcontainers for drug targeting from blood to brain. J. Controlled Rel. 1992, 22, 141-158. 

Amphiphilic block copolymer micelles Poly(ethylene glycol)-poly(caprolactone) Norcantharidin Anticancer [114]... 

Thermosensitive polymeric micelles Poly(Af-isopropylacrylamide- co-acrylamide)-b-poly (DL-lactide) Docetaxel Thermal targeted antitumor drug dehvery [116]... 

Polymeric micelles Poly(ethylene glycol)-polyOactide) Cyclosporin A Solubihty enhancement of poorly soluble cyclosporin A and furdier improving oral absorption of the drug [117]... 

A number of examples have been studied in recent years, including liquid sulfur [1-3,8] and selenium [4], poly(o -methylstyrene) [5-7], polymer-like micelles [9,11], and protein filaments [12]. Besides their importance for applications, EP pose a number of basic questions concerning phase transformations, conformational and relaxational properties, dynamics, etc. which distinguish them from conventional dead polymers in which the reaction of polymerization has been terminated. EP motivate intensive research activity in this field at present. 

M. Zulauf, K. Weckstrom, J. B. Hayter, V. Degiorgio, M. Corti. Neutron scattering study of micelle structure in isotopic aqueous solutions of poly(oxy-ethylene) amphiphiles. J Phys Chem 29 3411-3417, 1985. 

The pioneering work on amphiphilic polyelectrolytes goes back to 1951, when Strauss et al. [25] first synthesized amphiphilic polycations by quaternization of poly(2-vinylpyridine) with n-dodecyl bromide. They revealed that the long alkyl side chains attached to partially quaternized poly(vinylpyridine)s tended to aggregate in aqueous solution so that the polymers assumed a compact conformation when the mole fraction of the hydrophobic side chains exceeded a certain critical value. Thus, Strauss et al. became the first to show experimentally the intramolecular micellation of amphiphilic polymers and the existence of a critical content of hydrophobic residues which may be compared to the critical micelle concentration of ordinary surfactants. They called such amphiphilic polyelectrolytes polysoaps [25],... 

As has been described in Chapter 4, random copolymers of styrene (St) and 2-(acrylamido)-2-methylpropanesulfonic acid (AMPS) form a micelle-like microphase structure in aqueous solution [29]. The intramolecular hydrophobic aggregation of the St residues occurs when the St content in the copolymer is higher than ca. 50 mol%. When a small mole fraction of the phenanthrene (Phen) residues is covalently incorporated into such an amphiphilic polyelectrolyte, the Phen residues are hydrophobically encapsulated in the aggregate of the St residues. This kind of polymer system (poly(A/St/Phen), 29) can be prepared by free radical ter-polymerization of AMPS, St, and a small mole fraction of 9-vinylphenanthrene [119]. 

Peculiar DNA architecture was demonstrated in 25% aqueous ethanol when DNA was complexed with series of cationic detergents in the presence of poly(glutamic acid) [124]. Electron microscopy and x-ray scattering demonstrated that DNA can pack cetyltrimethylammonium bromide molecules into rodlike micelles, which form a hexagonal lattice. Interestingly, circular dichroism spectroscopy revealed that in these complexes DNA adopts left-handed conformation. 

The use of ordered supramolecular assemblies, such as micelles, monolayers, vesicles, inverted micelles, and lyotropic liquid crystalline systems, allows for the controlled nucleation of inorganic materials on molecular templates with well-defined structure and surface chemistry. Poly(propyleneimine) dendrimers modified with long aliphatic chains are a new class of amphiphiles which display a variety of aggregation states due to their conformational flexibility [38]. In the presence of octadecylamine, poly(propyleneimine) dendrimers modified with long alkyl chains self-assemble to form remarkably rigid and well-defined aggregates. When the aggregate dispersion was injected into a supersaturated... 

J. P. and Moller, M. (2001) Excimer laser ablation of gold-loaded inverse polystyrene-block-poly (2-vinylpyridine) micelles. Appl. Phys. A, 72, 679-685. 

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