Giant Hexagonal Superstructures in Diblock-Copolymer Membranes
- 18 November 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 89 (23) , 238302
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.89.238302
Abstract
We have observed polymersomes of high genus with their vesicle wall organized on the micrometer scale either in a double bilayer connected by a lattice of passages or a tubular network with hexagonal symmetry. Experimentally found shape classes are identified within a theoretical phase diagram based on the bending energy of the polymer membrane. Pronounced morphological changes could be induced and controlled by temperature.This publication has 19 references indexed in Scilit:
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