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ArticleMacromolecular rapid communications2025

Synthesis and Self-Assembly of Poly(4-acetoxystyrene) Cubosomes.

Marcel Schumacher, Marvin Foith, Manuel Trömer, Nadine Tänzer, Sabine Rosenfeldt, Markus Retsch, André H Gröschel

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Article in Macromolecular rapid communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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7 authors.

Marcel SchumacherInstitute of Physical Chemistry and Center for Soft Nanoscience (SoN), University of Münster, Busso-Peus-Str. 10, 48149, Münster, Germany.
Marvin FoithPolymer Materials for Energy Storage (PES), Bavarian Center for Battery Technology (BayBatt) and Bavarian Polymer Institute (BPI), University of Bayreuth, Universitätsstr. 30, 95448, Bayreuth, Germany.
Manuel TrömerInstitute of Physical Chemistry and Center for Soft Nanoscience (SoN), University of Münster, Busso-Peus-Str. 10, 48149, Münster, Germany.
Nadine TänzerInstitute of Physical Chemistry and Center for Soft Nanoscience (SoN), University of Münster, Busso-Peus-Str. 10, 48149, Münster, Germany.
Sabine RosenfeldtDepartment of Chemistry, Physical Chemistry I and Bavarian Polymer Institute (BPI), University of Bayreuth, Universitätsstraße 30, 95447, Bayreuth, Germany.
Markus RetschDepartment of Chemistry, Physical Chemistry I, Bavarian Polymer Institute, Bayreuth Center for Colloids and Interfaces, and Bavarian Center for Battery Technology (BayBatt), University of Bayreuth, Universitätsstraße 30, 95447, Bayreuth, Germany.
André H GröschelInternational Graduate School BACCARA, University of Münster, 48149, Münster, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2576-394X

Funding

German Research Foundation (DFG) project GR5075/7-1German Research Foundation (DFG) project INST211/1048-1FUGG
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Polymer cubosomes (PCs) are a recent class of self-assembled nanostructures with great application potential due to their high porosity and surface area. Currently, most reported PCs consist of polystyrene block copolymers (BCPs), for which self-assembly parameters are rather well understood. Changing the block chemistry would be desirable to introduce more functionality; however, knowledge of adapting the self-assembly process to new chemistries remains limited. This work, reports on synthesizing poly(ethylene oxide)-block-poly(4-acetoxystyrene) and its copolymers with styrene, and provide conditions for their self-assembly into PCs with high yield and high inner order. It is shown that the polarity of the starting solvent toward the corona block allows tuning of the final morphology by controlling the corona volume and packing parameter.

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NanostructuresPolymersPolystyrenesMolecular StructureParticle SizePolyethylene GlycolsPorositySurface PropertiesPolyethylene GlycolsPolymersPolystyrenesblock copolymerscopolymerizationinverse morphologiesmesoporous microparticlesself‐assembly

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PMID39412779
PMCPMC11756864

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