Issue 25, 2013
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Soft Matter

Thermoresponsive self-assembled polymer colloids in water

Sabrina Hocineabc  and  Min-Hui Li*abc  

* Corresponding authors

a Institut Curie, Centre de recherche, 26 rue d’Ulm, 75248 Paris, France
E-mail: min-hui.li@curie.fr

b CNRS, Laboratoire Physico-chimie Curie, UMR 168, 75248 Paris, France

c Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 75248 Paris, France

Abstract

Thermoresponsive polymer colloids made of amphiphilic block copolymers are reviewed in this paper. The main families of thermoresponsive polymers, including hydrophilic polymers with LCST (PEG, PNIPAM, poly(oxazoline)s and elastin-like polypeptides, etc.) and hydrophobic polymers with thermotropic phase transitions (liquid crystalline and crystalline polymers), are first described with the details of the underlying physical chemical principles. Polymer colloids with thermoresponsive polymers as the hydrophobic core, hydrophilic corona or both of them depending on temperature (schizophrenic systems) are discussed and their potential bio-related applications highlighted. We also take notice of the particular thermoresponsive properties of PEG in the polymer colloids. Hydrophilic PEG has its water solubility and degree of hydration decreased with increasing temperature in the range far below its LCST (∼100 °C). These properties can result in significant or even drastic morphological changes in colloids, which should be taken into account when designing thermoresponsive polymer colloids using the PEG corona.

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Article information

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C3SM50428J
Article type
Tutorial Review
Submitted
08 Feb 2013
Accepted
23 Apr 2013
First published
28 May 2013

Soft Matter, 2013,9, 5839-5861

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