| Abstract
| - It has been shown by us in a recent communication that homopolymers, in which each repeatunit contains a hydrophilic and a hydrophobic head group, are capable of forming environment-dependentmicellar or inverse micellar assemblies. A systematic structure−property relationship study is carried outhere to test the scope of the design. We show here that the molecular design is indeed broadly applicableand that there is a significant gain in the critical aggregation concentrations of these polymers, as comparedto the small molecule counterparts. We also show that the design can be tuned to achieve vesicle-typeassemblies, which further expands the repertoire of amphiphilic homopolymers in a variety of areas.Characterizations of these assemblies have been carried out using transmission electron microscopy,dynamic light scattering, static light scattering, and dye incorporation experiments.
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