Multi-compartment aggregates: Supermicelles, compound micelles, compound or multi-lamellar vesicles and hollow hoops

POLY 247

Nicolas Duxin, nicolas_duxin@hotmail.com, Department of Chemistry, McGill University, 801 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, QC H3A 2K6, Canada and Adi Eisenberg, adi.eisenberg@mcgill.ca, Department of Chemsitry, McGill University, 801 Sherbrooke St. West - Rm 316, Montreal, QC H2X2E6, Canada.
Block copolymer self-assembly can lead to various types of multi-compartment aggregates. Some of the compartments can be hollow, while others are filled with species such as CdS. A range of potential applications can be envisaged. The hollow multi-compartment structures include compound vesicles as well as concentric lamellar vesicles. The filled structures include compound micelles, induced compound micelles and super micelles, which consist of well defined quantum dots dispersed in a spherical polymer matrix. Non spherical (e.g. rod-like) multi-compartment structures can also be prepared. Either diblock or triblock copolymers can be used, depending on the desired multi-compartment structure.
 

Multicompartment Micelles: Higher Order Self-assembly of Block Copolymers
8:30 AM-12:00 PM, Monday, 11 September 2006 San Francisco Marriott -- Salon B2, Oral

Division of Polymer Chemistry

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