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Micelles grow more complex

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A crystalline polymer serves both as the seed and as one component of a diblock copolymer for the growth of unusual multi-armed micelles.

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Figure 1: Crystallization-driven growth of multi-armed micelles.

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  1. Guojun Liu and Ian Wyman are in the Department of Chemistry, Queen's University, 90 Bader Lane, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada,

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