Aggregation of random co-polymers

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This proposal builds upon the successful study of a cationic copolymer capable of forming polymer micellar-like aggregates, simply by reducing pH (D33 at ILL 9-12-433 see report). Moreover, the size of aggregates could be tuned by adjusting pH during polymerisation. The copolymer system is comprised of a small mol. % (5-17) N, N-dimethylaminoethyl methacrylate (DMAEMA) copolymerised with methyl methacylate (MMA). This type of copolymer is significant for offering a simplified and direct route to cationic aggregates, as compared with common block copolymers. The proposal prompts a re-think of the general approach: can the careful design of random (surface-active) copolymers, offer similar control over aggregations, circumventing the need for harder to prepare block copolymers?

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.82354412
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/82354412
Provenance
Creator Mr Miguel Hinojosa Navarro; Professor Julian Eastoe; Mr Jonny Pegg; Mr Christopher Hill; Miss Jocelyn Peach; Dr Adam Czajka; Dr Sarah Rogers
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2019
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Chemistry; Natural Sciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2016-10-18T08:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2016-10-19T08:00:00Z