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.