The synthesis, assembly and applications of gemini surfactants, a new family of two-faced molecular surfactants consisting of two conventional surfactants chemically connected together by a rigid spacer, have significantly intensified in the pastdecades. It was found that the nature of the spacer group (length, rigidity, chemical composition) greatly affect the solution self-assembly behaviors of aqueous gemini surfactants. Due to the intrinsic attractive properties and promising applications ofgemini surfactants, a new triple �click� chemistry method is applied to synthesize POSS-based �giant gemini surfactant� (PS-(APOSS)-(APOSS)-PS). Interestingly, the PS tails are much less stretched in micelle cores than those in the micelles formed byAPOSS end-capped polystyrene(APOSS-PS). With further decreasing the length of the linker, the PS tail become shorter. 

Giant gemini surfactants based on polystyrene hydrophilic polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane shape amphiphiles: Sequential click chemistry and solution self-assembly

245th National Meeting (2013)

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