Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Lund, Reidar
• Willner, Lutz
• Monkenbusch, Michael
• Panine, Pierre
• Narayanan, Theyencheri
• Colmenero, Juan
• Richter, Dieter

Titel

Structural observation and kinetic pathway in the formation of polymeric micelles

Ist Teil von

• Physical review letters, 2009-05, Vol.102 (18), p.188301-188301, Article 188301

Ort / Verlag

United States

Erscheinungsjahr

2009

Quelle

PROLA

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The route by which amphiphilic molecules self-assemble into micelles is still not fully understood. In this Letter, we present direct structural information on the birth and growth of block copolymer micelles by means of synchrotron x-ray scattering with millisecond time resolution. Using a quantitative model, we show that the self-assembly process can be viewed as a nucleation and growth type process where the elemental growth mechanism is an exchange of single molecules.