ReviewJournal of the American Chemical Society2024
Kinetically Controlled and Nonequilibrium Assembly of Block Copolymers in Solution.
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- Tuning the Length of Filomicelles Prepared Via Templated Polymerization-Induced Self-Assembly.Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2026Article
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- Thermoreversibly assembled polymersomes for highly efficient loading, processing and delivery of protein and siRNA biologics.Nature biomedical engineering · 2026Article
- Droplet-mediated kinetic-to-thermodynamic transition for the fabrication of uniform 1D and 2D nanostructures from conjugated homopolymers.Chemical science · 2026Article
- Kinetically controlled hetero-fusion is a systems-level behaviour of polymer nanoparticle populations.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Diblock Copolypeptoid Micelles as Platform for Aqueous Photoredox Cyanation of Arenes.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2025Article
- Solvent-Induced Morphology Control of Polymer Assemblies with Improved Photothermal Features.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2025Article
- Precise Epitaxial 1D and 2D Growth of Polyester-Based Materials in n-Alkanes.Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2025Article
- Self-reproduction as an autonomous process of growth and reorganization in fully abiotic, artificial and synthetic cells.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Aqueous Self-Assembly of Cylindrical and Tapered Bottlebrush Block Copolymers.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2025Article
- Polymerization-induced self-assembly enables access to diverse highly ordered structures through kinetic and thermodynamic pathways.Chemical science · 2025Article
- Water Transport Dynamics and Kinetic Equilibria in Nanoblisters at the Graphene-Mica Interface.Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids · 2025Article
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Abstract
Covalent polymers are versatile macromolecules that have found widespread use in society. Contemporary methods of polymerization have made it possible to construct sequence polymers, including block copolymers, with high precision. Such copolymers assemble in solution when the blocks have differing solubilities. This produces nano- and microparticles of various shapes and sizes. While it is straightforward to draw an analogy between such amphiphilic block copolymers and phospholipids, these two classes of molecules show quite different assembly characteristics. In particular, block copolymers often assemble under kinetic control, thus producing nonequilibrium structures. This leads to a rich variety of behaviors being observed in block copolymer assembly, such as pathway dependence (e.g., thermal history), nonergodicity and responsiveness. The dynamics of polymer assemblies can be readily controlled using changes in environmental conditions and/or integrating functional groups situated on polymers with external chemical reactions. This perspective highlights that kinetic control is both pervasive and a useful attribute in the mechanics of block copolymer assembly. Recent examples are highlighted in order to show that toggling between static and dynamic behavior can be used to generate, manipulate and dismantle nonequilibrium states. New methods to control the kinetics of block copolymer assembly will provide endless unanticipated applications in materials science, biomimicry and medicine.
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