Silkworm cocoons by cylinders self-assembled from H-shaped alternating polymer brushes
writer：Qiutong Huang, Bo Yang, Huanhuan Liu, Youliang Zhao,* Jianzhong Du*
keywords：polymer brush, self-assembly
source：期刊
specific source：Polym. Chem., 2015, 6, 886-890
Issue time：2014年
We report a novel silkworm cocoon-like nanostructure based on the 3D hierarchical self-assembly of cylinders which are spontaneously formed by an H-shaped polymer brush comprising a disulfide-bridged spacer and two brushes with alternating PEG and PCL side chains. Crystalline of PCL between adjacent cylinders bridges cylinders.