Poly ethylene glycol acrylate chemical structure

This assembly chemistry is only limited by the preparation of an appropriate amphiphilic or hydrophobic diblock copolymer. With the structure and chemical composition of the resultant nanoparticles readily tunable using a wide range of block copolymers that are synthetically available. A broad range of polymers have been utilized as the core hydrophobic domain of shell-crosslinked nanoparticles and include styrene, isoprene, butadiene, caprolactone, poly (ethylene oxide), acrylates, methacrylate and acrylamides. Monomers that have been used to prepare the hydrophilic water-soluble domain include, among others, poly(ethylene glycol), acrylic acid, 4-vinylpyridine, (meth)acrylic acid, 2-dimethylaminoethyl methacrylate and Wisopropylacrylamide. 

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