2013/08/12 by Lin Jia, Min-Hui Li, Min‐Hui Li · 23 citations
Chemistry · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterization #Amphiphile #Bilayer #Chemistry #Composite material #Copolymer #Liquid Crystal Research Advancements #Liquid crystal #Liquid crystalline #Lyotropic #Materials science #Membrane #Nanotechnology #Polymer #Polymersome #Surfactants and Colloidal Systems #Thermotropic crystal #Vesicle #cond-mat.soft
paper · pdf · doi:10.1080/02678292.2013.827753
published in Liquid Crystals 41(3), 368-384 (Taylor & Francis) · 35 pages, 17 figures
openalex publication_date 2013/08/12 · arxiv created 2015/03/04 · arxiv updated 2015/03/05 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
This paper reviews the research work on the liquid crystalline (LC) polymer vesicles (polymersomes), where the thermotropic nematic and smectic phases are displayed in the lyotropic bilayer polymer membrane. LC polymersomes possess the properties of both liquid crystals and polymers, the two essential soft matters. LC polymersomes offer, on the one hand, novel examples of the interplay between orientational order and the curved geometry of a two-dimensional membrane. Spherical, ellipsoidal and tetrahedral vesicles are discussed. On the other hand, LC polymersomes enable novel design of stimuli-responsive polymersomes using intramolecular conformational change at nematic to isotropic phase transition of LC blocks. Photo-responsive polymersome bursting is highlighted.