SCF study of amphiphilic micellar shells containing polyelectrolyte and hydrophobic sequences

Abstract

The SCF study of amphiphilic micellar shells containing polyelectrolyte and hydrophobic sequences shows that the shell conformational behavior strongly depends not only on their composition but also on the distribution of hydrophobic sequences.

Keywords

• block-copolymer micelles
• onion-type micelles
• heteroarm star copolymers
• aqueous-media
• diblock copolymer
• scaling theory
• interpolyelectrolyte complexes
• branched polyelectrolytes
• triblock copolymer
• light-scattering