#  Bishnu Bastakoti (Perez-Mercader Group) "Chemical Synthesis and Spontaneous Formation of Giant Polymer Vesicles" 

 



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 **May 4, 2017** 

 09:00AM - 10:00AM EDT 

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 **Naito Laboratory (Room 205), 12 Oxford Street**  



 

 



 

Abstract:

Polymer vesicles (polymersomes) are a synthetic analogue of liposomes. Block copolymers that mimic the lipid amphiphilicity can self-assemble into nano/micro sized polymer vesicles. Physicochemical properties of polymer vesicles such as stability, fluidity, permeability can be easily tuned due to the rich chemistry of block copolymers. In this talk, I will discuss the facile one pot synthesis of polymeric vesicles made of amphiphilic diblock copolymers through light mediated polymerization induced self-assembly and their potential applications. The growth of hydrophobic units at the end of hydrophilic chains forms an amphiphilic block copolymer that can undergo self-assembly in aqueous solution. By varying the molecular weight of the two blocks, higher order morphologies can be obtained.



 

 



 

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