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| Hauptseite > Publikationsdatenbank > Cooperativity during Melting and Molecular Exchange in Micelles with Crystalline Cores |
| Journal Article | FZJ-2019-01640 |
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2019
APS
College Park, Md.
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Please use a persistent id in citations: http://hdl.handle.net/2128/21716 doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.078001
Abstract: Molecular exchange processes are important equilibration and transport mechanisms in both synthetic and biological self-assembled systems such as micelles, vesicles, and membranes. Still, these processes are not entirely understood, in particular the effect of crystallinity and the interplay between cooperative melting processes and chain exchange. Here we focus on a set of simple polymer micelles formed by binary mixtures of poly(ethylene oxide)-mono-n-alkyl-ethers (Cn−PEO5) which allows the melting point to be tuned over a wide range. We show that the melting transition is cooperative in the confined 4–5 nm micellar core, whereas the exchange process is widely decoupled and unimeric in nature. As confirmed by differential scanning calorimetry, the total activation energy for ejecting a molecule out of the micellar core below the melting point is the sum of the enthalpy of fusion and the corresponding activation energy in the melt state. This suggests that a “local, single-chain melting process” preludes the molecular diffusion out of the micelle during chain exchange.
Keyword(s): Polymers, Soft Nano Particles and Proteins (1st) ; Soft Condensed Matter (2nd)
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