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      A Critical Appraisal of RAFT-Mediated Polymerization-Induced Self-Assembly

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      Journal: Macromolecules
      Publisher: American Chemical Society

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          Recently, polymerization-induced self-assembly (PISA) has become widely recognized as a robust and efficient route to produce block copolymer nanoparticles of controlled size, morphology, and surface chemistry. Several reviews of this field have been published since 2012, but a substantial number of new papers have been published in the last three years. In this Perspective, we provide a critical appraisal of the various advantages offered by this approach, while also pointing out some of its current drawbacks. Promising future research directions as well as remaining technical challenges and unresolved problems are briefly highlighted.

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          Polymer vesicles.

          Dennis E. Discher, Adi Eisenberg (2002)
          Vesicles are microscopic sacs that enclose a volume with a molecularly thin membrane. The membranes are generally self-directed assemblies of amphiphilic molecules with a dual hydrophilic-hydrophobic character. Biological amphiphiles form vesicles central to cell function and are principally lipids of molecular weight less than 1 kilodalton. Block copolymers that mimic lipid amphiphilicity can also self-assemble into vesicles in dilute solution, but polymer molecular weights can be orders of magnitude greater than those of lipids. Structural features of vesicles, as well as properties including stability, fluidity, and intermembrane dynamics, are greatly influenced by characteristics of the polymers. Future applications of polymer vesicles will rely on exploiting unique property-performance relations, but results to date already underscore the fact that biologically derived vesicles are but a small subset of what is physically and chemically possible.
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            Theory of self-assembly of hydrocarbon amphiphiles into micelles and bilayers

            Jacob Israelachvili, D. Mitchell, Barry Ninham (1976)
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              Controlled/living radical polymerization: Features, developments, and perspectives

              Wade Braunecker, Krzysztof Matyjaszewski (2007)
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                Journal ID (nlm-ta): Macromolecules
                Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Macromolecules
                Journal ID (publisher-id): ma
                Journal ID (coden): mamobx
                Title: Macromolecules
                Publisher: American Chemical Society
                ISSN (Print): 0024-9297
                Publication date (Electronic): 09 March 2016
                Publication date (Print): 22 March 2016
                Volume: 49
                Issue: 6
                Pages: 1985-2001
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                [1]Dainton Building, Department of Chemistry, University of Sheffield , Brook Hill, Sheffield, South Yorkshire S3 7HF, U.K.
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                [* ]E-mail s.p.armes@ 123456shef.ac.uk (S.P.A.).
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                DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.5b02602
                PMC ID: 4806311
                PubMed ID: 27019522
                SO-VID: fbb11396-65d6-4a09-8b1c-28b9352ea8b3
                Copyright © Copyright © 2016 American Chemical Society
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                This is an open access article published under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the author and source are cited.

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                Date received : 01 December 2015
                Date revision received : 01 February 2016
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                Subject: Perspective
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