Polymer vesicles formed by amphiphilic diblock copolymers containing a thermotropic liquid crystalline polymer block
- 1 August 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Chemical Communications
- No. 34,p. 4345-4347
- https://doi.org/10.1039/b508034g
Abstract
New amphiphilic diblock copolymers composed of poly(ethylene glycol) and a thermotropic liquid crystalline polymer have been synthesized and demonstrated to form well-defined unilamellar vesicles in water by cryo-electron microscopy.Keywords
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