- 周永豐 教授
- 上海交通大學
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關鍵字:Multilevel Hierarchical Self-Assembly, Polymer Vesicles, Macroscopic Superstructures,Controlled Complexity
論文來源:期刊
具體來源:Langmuir 2010, 26, 14512. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/la102963w
發表時間:2010年
We demonstrate a high-leveled hierarchical self-assembly process into fractal structures. Two hyperbranched multiarm copolymers are first coassembled into binary isotropic vesicles in the primary self-assembly. Then, these primary vesicles are in situ endowed with anisotropic hydrophobic “binding sites” through a pH-induced lateral microphase separation, undergoing an isotropic?anisotropic transition. Subsequently, the anisotropic vesicles further assemble together through the specific self-recognition between the binding sites into linear, branched, cyclization, and network-like vesicle chains. Furthermore, the obtained vesicle chains can transform into linear, branched, ring-like, and network tubes through successive vesicle fusion. Such a hierarchical process is pH-triggered and well-controlled by adjusting the vesicle compositions and is coined as “polymerization-like” self-assembly due to the striking analogy between the vesicle association model and polymerization process.