Stimuli-sensitive assemblies of homopolymers

Xuemei Sun; Tao Chen; Sanqing Huang; Fangjing Cai; Xuli Chen; Zhibin Yang; Yunfeng Lu; Huisheng Peng

doi:10.1021/la902399r

Stimuli-sensitive assemblies of homopolymers

Langmuir. 2009 Oct 20;25(20):11980-3. doi: 10.1021/la902399r.

Authors

Xuemei Sun¹, Tao Chen, Sanqing Huang, Fangjing Cai, Xuli Chen, Zhibin Yang, Yunfeng Lu, Huisheng Peng

Affiliation

¹ Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers of Ministry of Education, Laboratory of Advanced Materials, and Department of Macromolecular Science, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China.

PMID: 19772331
DOI: 10.1021/la902399r

Abstract

Two homopolymers assemble into nanoparitcles in a common solvent of water through ionic complexation. These nanoparticles reversibly and rapidly respond to both pH and temperature, and are particularly promising as intelligent systems.