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Abstract

The synthesis of novel amphiphilic diblock copolymers comprised of hydrophilic linear polyethylene glycol and linear brush hydrophobic polydimethylsiloxane is introduced by Andri Halim, Timothy Reid, Jing M. Ren, Qiang Fu, Paul A. Gurr, Anton Blencowe, Sandra E. Kentish, and Greg G. Qiao on page 1251 (DOI: 10.1002/pola.27111). Self‐assembly of these diblock copolymers in N,N‐dimethylformamide (DMF) results in the formation of nanoparticles with different conformations. The assembly configurations rely heavily on the individual block lengths of the linear–linear brush diblock copolymers and vary from spherical micelles to large compound micelles.