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Chidanguro T, Ghimire E, Liu CH, Simon YC. Polymersomes: Breaking the Glass Ceiling? SMALL (WEINHEIM AN DER BERGSTRASSE, GERMANY) 2018; 14:e1802734. [PMID: 30369045 DOI: 10.1002/smll.201802734] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2018] [Revised: 10/05/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Polymer vesicles, also known as polymersomes, have garnered a lot of interest even before the first report of their fabrication in the mid-1990s. These capsules have found applications in areas such as drug delivery, diagnostics and cellular models, and are made via the self-assembly of amphiphilic block copolymers, predominantly with soft, rubbery hydrophobic segments. Comparatively, and despite their remarkable impermeability, glassy polymersomes (GPs) have been less pervasive due to their rigidity, lack of biodegradability and more restricted fabrication strategies. GPs are now becoming more prominent, thanks to their ability to undergo stable shape-change (e.g., into non-spherical morphologies) as a response to a predetermined trigger (e.g., light, solvent). The basics of block copolymer self-assembly with an emphasis on polymersomes and GPs in particular are reviewed here. The principles and advantages of shape transformation of GPs as well as their general usefulness are also discussed, together with some of the challenges and opportunities currently facing this area.
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- Tamuka Chidanguro
- School of Polymer Science and Engineering, The University of Southern Mississippi, 118 College Dr. #5050, Hattiesburg, 39406, MS, USA
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- School of Polymer Science and Engineering, The University of Southern Mississippi, 118 College Dr. #5050, Hattiesburg, 39406, MS, USA
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- School of Polymer Science and Engineering, The University of Southern Mississippi, 118 College Dr. #5050, Hattiesburg, 39406, MS, USA
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- School of Polymer Science and Engineering, The University of Southern Mississippi, 118 College Dr. #5050, Hattiesburg, 39406, MS, USA
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Osumi S, Felder SE, Wang H, Lin Y, Dong M, Wooley KL. Construction of nanostructures in aqueous solution from amphiphilic glucose‐derived polycarbonates. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2018. [DOI: 10.1002/pola.29229] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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- Shota Osumi
- Departments of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, and Materials Science & Engineering, and Laboratory for Synthetic‐Biologic Interactions Texas A&M University College Station Texas 77842
- Chiba Research Center Nippon Soda Co., Ltd. 12‐54 Goi‐minamikaigan, Ichihara Chiba 290‐0045 Japan
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- Departments of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, and Materials Science & Engineering, and Laboratory for Synthetic‐Biologic Interactions Texas A&M University College Station Texas 77842
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- Departments of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, and Materials Science & Engineering, and Laboratory for Synthetic‐Biologic Interactions Texas A&M University College Station Texas 77842
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- Departments of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, and Materials Science & Engineering, and Laboratory for Synthetic‐Biologic Interactions Texas A&M University College Station Texas 77842
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- Departments of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, and Materials Science & Engineering, and Laboratory for Synthetic‐Biologic Interactions Texas A&M University College Station Texas 77842
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- Departments of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, and Materials Science & Engineering, and Laboratory for Synthetic‐Biologic Interactions Texas A&M University College Station Texas 77842
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Jones BH, Bachand GD, Shin SHR, Firestone MA, Paxton WF. Dynamic Control over Aqueous Poly(butadiene-b-ethylene oxide) Self-Assembly through Olefin Metathesis. Macromolecules 2018. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.8b01417] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, United States
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Yeow J, Chapman R, Gormley AJ, Boyer C. Up in the air: oxygen tolerance in controlled/living radical polymerisation. Chem Soc Rev 2018; 47:4357-4387. [PMID: 29718038 PMCID: PMC9857479 DOI: 10.1039/c7cs00587c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 256] [Impact Index Per Article: 42.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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The requirement for deoxygenation in controlled/living radical polymerisation (CLRP) places significant limitations on its widespread implementation by necessitating the use of large reaction volumes, sealed reaction vessels as well as requiring access to specialised equipment such as a glove box and/or inert gas source. As a result, in recent years there has been intense interest in developing strategies for overcoming the effects of oxygen inhibition in CLRP and therefore remove the necessity for deoxygenation. In this review, we highlight several strategies for achieving oxygen tolerant CLRP including: "polymerising through" oxygen, enzyme mediated deoxygenation and the continuous regeneration of a redox-active catalyst. In order to provide further clarity to the field, we also establish some basic parameters for evaluating the degree of "oxygen tolerance" that can be achieved using a given oxygen scrubbing strategy. Finally, we propose some applications that could most benefit from the implementation of oxygen tolerant CLRP and provide a perspective on the future direction of this field.
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- Jonathan Yeow
- Centre for Advanced Macromolecular Design (CAMD), UNSW Australia, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia.
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Corrigan N, Manahan R, Lew ZT, Yeow J, Xu J, Boyer C. Copolymers with Controlled Molecular Weight Distributions and Compositional Gradients through Flow Polymerization. Macromolecules 2018. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.8b00673] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Gentekos DT, Jia J, Tirado ES, Barteau KP, Smilgies DM, DiStasio RA, Fors BP. Exploiting Molecular Weight Distribution Shape to Tune Domain Spacing in Block Copolymer Thin Films. J Am Chem Soc 2018. [DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b00694] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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- Dillon T. Gentekos
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS), Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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Oukacine F, Gèze A, Choisnard L, Putaux JL, Stahl JP, Peyrin E. Inline Coupling of Electrokinetic Preconcentration Method to Taylor Dispersion Analysis for Size-Based Characterization of Low-UV-Absorbing Nanoparticles. Anal Chem 2018; 90:2493-2500. [PMID: 29359557 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.7b03344] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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The inline coupling of the field-amplified sample injection (FASI) to Taylor dispersion analysis (TDA) was used to characterize low-UV absorbing carboxylated silica nanoparticles (cNPs). The hydrodynamic diameters (Dh) were measured by using a commercial capillary electrophoresis instrument. The proposed methodology did not require any complicated instruments or chromophoric dye to increase the detection sensitivity. A practical method based on a half-Gaussian fitting was proposed for the data processing. The results obtained by this method were compared with those derived from dynamic light scattering (DLS) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) analyses. From these results, it appeared that the size derived by TDA is in excellent agreement with those measured by DLS and TEM, as demonstrated by stable nanoparticles with narrow size distributions. Intermediate precision relative standard deviations less than 5% were obtained by FASI-TDA. The effect of the FASI-induced cNP peak dispersion on the reliability of the results was discussed in detail.
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- Farid Oukacine
- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, DPM, CNRS UMR 5063 , F-38041 Grenoble, France
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, DPM, CNRS UMR 5063 , F-38041 Grenoble, France
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, DPM, CNRS UMR 5063 , F-38041 Grenoble, France
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, CERMAV , F-38000 Grenoble, France
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- Infectiologie, Univ. et CHU Grenoble Alpes , 38700 La Tronche, France
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, DPM, CNRS UMR 5063 , F-38041 Grenoble, France
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Lestini E, Blackman LD, Zammit CM, Chen T, Williams RJ, Inam M, Couturaud B, O'Reilly RK. Palladium-polymer nanoreactors for the aqueous asymmetric synthesis of therapeutic flavonoids. Polym Chem 2018. [DOI: 10.1039/c7py02050c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Polymeric core–shell micelles incorporating a chiral palladium pyridinooxazoline catalyst are presented as nanoreactors for the aqueous asymmetric synthesis of flavanones, a class of flavonoids, with therapeutic properties.
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- E. Lestini
- University of Warwick
- Department of Chemistry
- Coventry
- UK
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- University of Warwick
- Department of Chemistry
- Coventry
- UK
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- University of Warwick
- Department of Chemistry
- Coventry
- UK
- College of Materials and Textiles
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- University of Warwick
- Department of Chemistry
- Coventry
- UK
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- University of Warwick
- Department of Chemistry
- Coventry
- UK
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Harrisson S. The downside of dispersity: why the standard deviation is a better measure of dispersion in precision polymerization. Polym Chem 2018. [DOI: 10.1039/c8py00138c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Dispersity gives a deceptively rosy picture of the extent of dispersion in molecular weight distributions. For complex structures or relatively narrow molecular weight distributions, the standard deviation of the number distribution is a better choice.
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- Simon Harrisson
- Laboratoire des IMRCP
- Université de Toulouse
- CNRS UMR 5623
- Université Paul Sabatier
- 31062 Toulouse Cedex 9
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Corrigan N, Almasri A, Taillades W, Xu J, Boyer C. Controlling Molecular Weight Distributions through Photoinduced Flow Polymerization. Macromolecules 2017. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.7b01890] [Citation(s) in RCA: 112] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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- Nathaniel Corrigan
- Centre
for Advanced Macromolecular Design (CAMD), School of Chemical
Engineering, and ‡Australian Centre for NanoMedicine, School of Chemical Engineering, UNSW Australia, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
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- Centre
for Advanced Macromolecular Design (CAMD), School of Chemical
Engineering, and ‡Australian Centre for NanoMedicine, School of Chemical Engineering, UNSW Australia, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
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- Centre
for Advanced Macromolecular Design (CAMD), School of Chemical
Engineering, and ‡Australian Centre for NanoMedicine, School of Chemical Engineering, UNSW Australia, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
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- Centre
for Advanced Macromolecular Design (CAMD), School of Chemical
Engineering, and ‡Australian Centre for NanoMedicine, School of Chemical Engineering, UNSW Australia, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
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- Centre
for Advanced Macromolecular Design (CAMD), School of Chemical
Engineering, and ‡Australian Centre for NanoMedicine, School of Chemical Engineering, UNSW Australia, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
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