New insights on the solution behavior and self-assembly of polystyrene/poly(2-vinylpyridine) 'hairy' heteroarm star copolymers with highly asymmetric arms in polar organic and aqueous media

Abstract

Light scattering, fluorescence correlation spectroscopy and atomic force microscopy study of the solution self-assembly of a heteroarm star copolymer

Keywords

• star copolymers
• self-assembly
• light scattering
• fluorescence correlation spectroscopy
• atomic force microscopy