Visible light-responsive micelles formed from dialkoxyanthracene-containing block copolymers.
A class of dialkoxyanthracene-containing diblock copolymers is synthesized which possesses visible light-responsivity. These copolymers can self-assemble into a micellar structure in water. Green visible light (540 nm) is able to scissor these anthracene species and cleave the diblock copolymer into two fragments, inducing disassembly of the self-assembled micelles.
Key Lab of Organic Optoelectronics & Molecular Engineering, Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
Qiang
Q
Yan
Jun
J
Hu
Rong
R
Zhou
Yong
Y
Ju
Yingwu
Y
Yin
Jinying
J
Yuan
D000873:Anthracenes / Q000737:chemistry*; D008027:Light; D008823:Micelles; D008958:Models, Molecular; D008968:Molecular Conformation; D055668:Photochemical Processes; D011108:Polymers / Q000737:chemistry*
D000873:Anthracenes; D008823:Micelles; D011108:Polymers; C034020:anthracene