Polymer-micelle complexes topology

Finally, topological and chemical complexity can be combined within the individual maaomolecule diblock star copolymer or comblike copolymers are the examples of polymer architectures capable of forming thermodynamically stable molecular solutions in the form of unimolecular micelles. 

Further progress in the field of IPECs has been associated with involvement of more complex polyionic architectures, such as branched ionic (co)polymers (polyelectrolyte stars and cylindrical polyelectrolyte brushes) as well as self-assemblies of linear ionic diblock copolymers (polymeric micelles) (Fig. 6a-c), into interpolyelectrolyte complexation. Synthesis of well-defined polymeric architectures with nonlinear topology has become possible only recently due to considerable developments in living and controlled polymerizations. In this section, we briefly... 

---