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Spontaneous Assembly of Miktoarm Stars into Vesicular Interpolyelectrolyte Complexes
Authors:Felix A Plamper  Arjan P Gelissen  Jan Timper  Andrea Wolf  Alexander B Zezin  Walter Richtering  Heikki Tenhu  Ulrich Simon  Joachim Mayer  Oleg V Borisov  Dmitry V Pergushov
Abstract:Mixing a bis‐hydrophilic, cationic miktoarm star polymer with a linear polyanion leads to the formation of unilamellar polymersomes, which consist of an interpolyelectrolyte complex (IPEC) wall sandwiched between poly(ethylene oxide) brushes. The experimental finding of this rare IPEC morphology is rationalized theoretically: the star architecture forces the assembly into a vesicular shape due to the high entropic penalty for stretching of the insoluble arms in non‐planar morphologies. The transmission electron microscopy of vitrified samples (cryogenic TEM) is compared with the samples at ambient conditions (in situ TEM), giving one of the first TEM reports on soft matter in its pristine environment.
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Keywords:capsule  complex coacervate  cryo‐TEM  self‐assembly  vesicle
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