Amphiphilic Polymers: Self-Assembly and Applications
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 October 2018) | Viewed by 23223
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Interests: biomaterials; materials chemistry; design and synthesis of biodegradable polymer; polymeric self-assemblies; biomedical materials; tissue engineering
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Dear Colleagues,
Well-defined amphiphilic polymers consisting of hydrophilic ("water-loving") and hydrophobic ("water-hating") components are at the forefront of smart material research due to their high complexity in structure design, excellent control in molecular self-assembly, and versatile functionality in material engineering and medical sciences. With the recent advances in controlled/living radical polymerization methods, combined with various coupling techniques, a large array of new functional amphiphilic polymers having various architectures such as block, grafted, cyclic, star-shape, dendritic, comb-like and hyperbanched have been developed, and their smart self-assemblies, ranging from colloidal systems, including structured Janus nanoparticles, micelles, vesicles, hydrogels and phase-transit materials, to engineered surface patterns have been unveiled. More importantly, these sophisticated materials show high performance in various applications, such as in advanced delivery carriers, tissue engineering, template-directed colloidal self-assembly, surface modification, and many other applications throughout industry. This Special Issue aims to provide a platform for the scientific community to share their latest developments and discoveries in the synthetic strategies, mechanism underlying smart self-assemblies, and the emerging applications of functional amphiphilic polymers in different fields.
Dr. Zibiao Li
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Synthetic strategies of copolymer with new architecture
- Molecular self-assembly
- Surface functionalization
- Amphiphilic polymer
- Polymer grafting and conjugation
- Polymer self-assembly and applications
- Biopolymer stereocomplexes
- Stimuli-responsive polymer
- Biodegradable polymer
- Host-guest chemistry
- Hybrid polymer
- Polymeric Janus materials
- Water soluble polymer
- Polymeric colloidal system
- Polymeric shape memory materials
- Block copolymer as surfactant
- Functional polymers with biological activity
- Block copolymer thin film
- Block copolymer templated mesoporous materials
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