Responsive Vesicles from the Self‐Assembly of Crystalline‐Coil Polyferrocenylsilane‐<i>block</i>‐Poly(ethylene Oxide) Star‐Block Copolymers
Bibliographic record
Abstract
We demonstrate the synthesis and characterization of star-shaped crystalline-coil block copolymers with four arms consisting of an inner block of poly(ethylene oxide) and an outer semicrystalline compartment of poly(ferrocenyldimethylsilane), [PEO(50) -b-PFDMS(35)](4). The materials were synthesized by transition-metal-catalyzed ring-opening polymerization of dimethylsila[1]ferrocenophane in the presence of silane-functionalized four-arm PEO stars as macroinitiators and they exhibited a moderate polydispersity (PDI≅1.4). Self-assembly in mixtures of THF and different alcohols as selective solvents for the PEO block resulted in the formation of semicrystalline vesicles (ethanol, 1-butanol) or large, rather ill-defined, spherical structures (methanol). Further, both the rate of addition of the selective co-solvent and the overall solvent/non-solvent ratio drastically affected the size and stability of the self-assembled particles. We could also show that a photoacid generator, as a model for an active substance, can be encapsulated and the UV-induced generation of HCl resulted in a straightforward degradation of the organometallic vesicles.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".