yes / The synthesis of nucleobase-containing polymers was successfully performed by RAFT dispersion polymerization in both chloroform and 1,4-dioxane and self-assembly was induced by the polymerizations. A combination of scattering and microscopy techniques were used to characterize the morphologies. It is found that the morphologies of self-assembled nucleobase-containing polymers are solvent dependent. By varying the DP of the core-forming block, only spherical micelles with internal structures were obtained in chloroform when using only adenine-containing methacrylate or a mixture of adenine-containing methacrylate and thymine-containing methacrylate as monomers. However, higher order structures and morphology transitions were observed in 1,4-dioxane. A sphere-rod-lamella-twisted bilayer transition was observed in this study. Moreover, the kinetics of the dispersion polymerizations were studied in both solvents, suggesting a different formation mechanism in these systems. / University of Warwick, Swiss National Science Foundation, EPSRC, Birmingham Science City, Advanatfe West Midlands (AWM), European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), Science City Research Alliance, Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE)
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:BRADFORD/oai:bradscholars.brad.ac.uk:10454/15382 |
| Date | 11 September 2014 |
| Creators | Kang, Y., Pitto-Barry, Anaïs, Willcock, H., Quan, W-D., Kirby, N., Sanchez, A.M., O'Reilly, R.K. |
| Source Sets | Bradford Scholars |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Article, Published version |
| Rights | © 2015 RSC. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. |
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