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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Dec 15.
Published in final edited form as: Macromolecules. 2010 Dec 14;43(23):9736–9746. doi: 10.1021/ma101316w

Figure 8.

Figure 8

Thermal stability and rugged energy landscape of OCL worm former. A Fluorescent micrographs of OCL(2, 9) assemblies after equilibrating at various temperatures for a day. B Thermodynamic representation of morphologies obtained from OCL diblock copolymers that predominantly form worm micelles. The coexistence of cylinders and vesicles is represented by similar magnitude of free energies and width of the valley represents thermally driven flexibilities in shape. The broken arrow indicates the effect of cooling on flexible worm micelles, as a result of which vesicles are formed and trapped in crystalline state.