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Nano Research & Applications
ISSN 2471-9838
Advanced Nano 2017
Page 70
September 11-12, 2017 Amsterdam, Netherlands
20
th
International Conference on
Advanced Nanotechnology
Polymer Nanoparticles with Tunable Shapes
and Internal Structures
Jiangping Xu
and
Jintao Zhu*
School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Huazhong University
of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
B
lock copolymer assemblies have attracted great
attention due to their potential applications in the fields
of drug delivery, targeting therapy, medical diagnosing and
imaging. 3 dimensional (3D) confinement, which can break
the symmetry of a structure, has proven to be a powerful
route to tailor the morphologies of block copolymer
particles. Particle shape and internal structure can thus be
tuned by using the supramoelcular strategy or tailoring the
interfacial interaction of the particles with the dispersed
medium.1-3 We will introduce the generation of the nano-
objects with well tunable shapes by taking advantage of
3D confined assembly and supramolecular chemistry.
Particles with various internal structures can be obtained
due to the 3D soft confinement in emulsion droplets.
Moreover, we will show that selective disassembly of the
structured particles will give rise to mesoporous particles
or nano-objects with unique shapes.
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