Nanopore Extrusion-Induced Transition from Spherical to Cylindrical Block Copolymer Micelles

摘要

Cylindrical micelles made of soluble and insoluble segments have been attracting increasing attention owing to their many interesting applications. They can function as templates to align inorganic nanocrystals into one-dimensional arrays and fabricate polymer-silica and polymer-metal oxide nanowires. Cylindrical micelles containing peptides have been shown to be able to direct the mineralization of hydroxyapatite with controlled crystalline orientations and induce rapid differentiation of neural progenitor cells.