Abstract
Phase separation in films of phospholipids and conjugated polymers results in nanoassemblies because of a difference in the physicochemical properties between the hydrophobic polymers and the polar lipid heads, together with the comparable polymer side-chain lengths to lipid tail lengths, thus producing nanoparticles of conjugated polymers upon disassembly in aqueous media by the penetration of water into polar regions of the lipid heads.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 4559-4564 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Advanced Materials |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue number | 26 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 9 Jul 2014 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- biomedical applications
- conjugated polymers
- nanomorphology
- nanoparticles
- phase separation in thin films