Asymmetric Vesicles Self-Assembled by Amphiphilic Sequence-Controlled Polymers was written by Huang, Pei;Qi, Meiwei;Chen, Chuanshuang;Xu, Fugui;Li, Shanlong;Xu, Qingsong;Pan, Hui;Wang, Yuling;Yu, Chunyang;Zhang, Shaodong;Zhou, Yongfeng. And the article was included in ACS Macro Letters in 2021.Product Details of 111-77-3 This article mentions the following:
The asym. distribution of lipids on the inner and outer membranes of a cell plays a pivotal role in the physiol. and immunol. activities of life. It has inspired the elaboration of synthetic asym. vesicles for the discovery of advanced materials and functions. The asym. vesicles were generally prepared by amphiphilic block copolymers. We herein report on the formation of asym. vesicles self-assembled by amphiphilic sequence-controlled polymers with two hydrophilic segments SU and TEO. We also developed an efficient fluorescence titration method with europium(III) ions (Eu3+) to determine the uneven distribution of SU and TEO. SU units are preferentially located on the outer membrane and TEO on the inner membrane of the resulting vesicles, which is facilitated by the electrostatic repulsion of SU and the U-shaped folding of the hydrophobic backbone of the resulting polymers. This work shows that sequence-controlled polymers with alternating monomer sequence provide a powerful toolbox for the elaboration of important yet challenging self-assembled structures for emerging functions and properties. In the experiment, the researchers used many compounds, for example, 2-(2-Methoxyethoxy)ethanol (cas: 111-77-3Product Details of 111-77-3).
2-(2-Methoxyethoxy)ethanol (cas: 111-77-3) belongs to ethers. Ethers are good solvents partly because they are not very reactive. Most ethers can be cleaved, however, by hydrobromic acid (HBr) to give alkyl bromides or by hydroiodic acid (HI) to give alkyl iodides. Ethers are good solvents partly because they are not very reactive. Most ethers can be cleaved, however, by hydrobromic acid (HBr) to give alkyl bromides or by hydroiodic acid (HI) to give alkyl iodides.Product Details of 111-77-3
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