STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS OF BLOCK-COPOLYMER COLLOIDS

Polymer colloids offer great potential in creating tailor-made supramolecules because of wider variations in the molecular architecture when compared with small detergent molecules. The delicate balance between inter- and intramolecular interactions together with interface/surface and geometrical contraints challenges both theory and experiment. Many experiments and applications have been made. A short-chain triblock copolymer is used as an example to discuss the methodology developed to investigate the structure and dynamics of such polymer colloids and to see the type of information which can be made available by using a combination of physical techniques.