Chemistry Letters, Vol.36, No.6, 774-775, 2007
Programmed formation of nanogels via a radical crossover reaction of complementarily reactive diblock copolymers
By heating two types of diblock copolymers with complementarily reactive alkoxyamine units in the side chains, nanogels were formed as a result of a radical crossover reaction of the alkoxyamine units. The transformation from the diblock copolymers to nanogels and their absolute molecular weight were obviously dependent on reaction concentrations and the mixing ratio of two types of diblock copolymers.