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ReviewChemical science2021

Emerging applications for living crystallization-driven self-assembly.

Liam MacFarlane, Chuanqi Zhao, Jiandong Cai, Huibin Qiu, Ian Manners

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Review in Chemical science, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 51 papers.

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51 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Liam MacFarlaneDepartment of Chemistry, University of Victoria British Columbia Canada imanners@uvic.ca.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4196-3431
Chuanqi ZhaoDepartment of Chemistry, University of Victoria British Columbia Canada imanners@uvic.ca.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3700-3224
Jiandong CaiDepartment of Chemistry, University of Victoria British Columbia Canada imanners@uvic.ca.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2859-9468
Huibin QiuSchool of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai 200240 China hbqiu@sjtu.edu.cn.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4699-6558
Ian MannersDepartment of Chemistry, University of Victoria British Columbia Canada imanners@uvic.ca.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3794-967X

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The use of crystallization as a tool to control the self-assembly of polymeric and molecular amphiphiles in solution is attracting growing attention for the creation of non-spherical nanoparticles and more complex, hierarchical assemblies. In particular, the seeded growth method termed living crystallization-driven self-assembly (CDSA) has been established as an ambient temperature and potentially scalable platform for the preparation of low dispersity samples of core-shell fiber-like or platelet micellar nanoparticles. Significantly, this method permits predictable control of size, and access to branched and segmented structures where functionality is spatially-defined. Living CDSA operates under kinetic control and shows many analogies with living chain-growth polymerizations of molecular organic monomers that afford well-defined covalent polymers of controlled length except that it covers a much longer length scale (

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PMCPMC8179577

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