Nanoparticle-to-vesicle and nanoparticle-to-toroid transitions of pH-sensitive ABC triblock copolymers by in-to-out switch

Xin Xiao; Shangjin He; Meihan Dan; Fei Huo; Wangqing Zhang

doi:10.1039/c4cc00813h

Nanoparticle-to-vesicle and nanoparticle-to-toroid transitions of pH-sensitive ABC triblock copolymers by in-to-out switch

Chem Commun (Camb). 2014 Apr 18;50(30):3969-72. doi: 10.1039/c4cc00813h. Epub 2014 Mar 7.

Authors

Xin Xiao¹, Shangjin He, Meihan Dan, Fei Huo, Wangqing Zhang

Affiliation

¹ Key Laboratory of Functional Polymer Materials, Ministry of Education, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin), and Institute of Polymer Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China. wqzhang@nankai.edu.cn.

PMID: 24608895
DOI: 10.1039/c4cc00813h

Abstract

An efficient way to achieve nanoparticle-to-vesicle transition of ABC triblock copolymers by in-to-out switch of the pH-sensitive core-forming C block is described.