Polymerization-like Multilevel Hierarchical Self-Assembly of Polymer Vesicles into Macroscopic Superstructures with Controlled Complexity
作者:Jin, H. B.; Zhou, Y. F.*; Huang, W.; Yan, D. Y.
关键字:Multilevel Hierarchical Self-Assembly, Polymer Vesicles, Macroscopic Superstructures,Controlled Complexity
论文来源:期刊
具体来源:Langmuir 2010, 26, 14512. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/la102963w
发表时间: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.