Synthetic strategies for preparing multicompartment micelles

POLY 14

Jean-François Lutz, lutz@iap.fhg.de1, Juliane Kristen2, Katja Skrabania2, and Andre Laschewsky, laschewsky@iap.fhg.de3. (1) Nanotechnology for Life Science, Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research, Geiselbergstrasse 69, Potsdam, 14476, Germany, (2) Institut fuer Chemie, Universitaet Potsdam, Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse 24-25, 14476 Golm, Germany, (3) Division Water-Based Polymers and Colloids, Fraunhofer-Institut für Angewandte Polymerforschung, Geiselbergstr. 69, 14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany
The fabrication of compartmented micellar systems is an exciting new area of research in the field of polymer self-assembly. Multicompartment micelles composed of a water-soluble shell and a segregated hydrophobic core can be obtained via direct aqueous self-assembly of preformed polymeric amphiphiles possessing one hydrophilic segment and two incompatible hydrophobic segments (e.g. hydrocarbon and fluorocarbon blocks). Such macromolecular building-blocks were prepared in the present work principally via reversible addition-fragmentation transfer polymerization (RAFT). Polysoaps or triblock macrosurfactants can be synthesized in high yields by RAFT under relatively straightforward experimental conditions.

 

Multicompartment Micelles: Higher Order Self-assembly of Block Copolymers
8:30 AM-12:00 PM, Sunday, 10 September 2006 San Francisco Marriott -- Salon B2, Oral

Division of Polymer Chemistry

The 232nd ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, CA, September 10-14, 2006