Abstract
We report the formation of vesicles with a laterally nanostructured membrane by self-assembly of "miktoarm" star terpolymers, that is, macromolecules with three chemically distinct arms. The lateral structure consists of approximately hexagonally packed fluorocarbon channels with 4.1 nm radii, immersed in a continuous, two-dimensional hydrocarbon bilayer. We also show that the assembly of these vesicles proceeds via metastable polygonal, faceted bilayer sheets.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1245-1253 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | Nano letters |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue number | 6 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jun 2006 |
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