Stimuli-responsive amphiphilic shells of kinetically frozen polymeric micelles in aqueous media: Monte Carlo simulations and comparison to self-consistent field calculations

Abstract

The behavior of amphiphilic shells of micelles with kinetically frozen hydrophobic cores in aqueous solutions was studied by Monte Carlo (MC) simulations. The calculations emulate the behavior of water-soluble shell-forming chains containing a relatively

Keywords

• block-copolymer micelles
• mean-field
• diblock copolymers
• scaling theory
• light-scattering
• polar-solvents
• polyelectrolyte
• adsorption
• morphology
• surfaces