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Stable and monodispersive polyion complex micelles were prepared in an aqueous milieu through electrostatic interaction between a pair of oppositely-charged block copolymers with poly(ethy1ene glycol) segments: poly(ethy1ene glycol)-poly(L-lysine) block copolymer (PEG-P(Lys)) and poly(ethy1ene glycol)-poly(a,/3-aspartic acid) block copolymer (PEG-P(Asp)). It was confirmed from photon correlation spectroscopy (dynamic light scattering) that the scaled average characteristic line width (rlK2) was independent of the magnitude of the scattering vector (PI, and the diffusion coefficient (DT) kept constant regardless of the concentration, indicating that the polyion complex micelles were spherical particles without any secondary aggregates. Further, polydispersity indexes (uf12) were always less than 0.1 in the range of the measured concentration (1-10 mg/mL). The hydrodynamic radius at infinite dilution of polyion complex micelles was then determined to be 15.2 nm by using the Stokes-Einstein equation. The unimodal size distribution with d,ld,, of 1.07 was confirmed from the correlation function profile by the histogram analysis. The size of polyion complex micelles was unchanged even a

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Author

Atsushi Harada; Kazunori Kataoka

Publisher

American Chemical Society (ACS)

Published

1995

Language

EN

Field

Materials Science (Physical Sciences)