A tetramer micelle: the smallest aggregation number corresponding to the vertex number of regular polyhedra in platonic micelles.

Fujii, Shota; Takahashi, Rintaro; Ha, Lee Ji; Sakurai, Kazuo · Soft Matter · 2018

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

In this paper, we describe the construction of tetramer micelles based on the idea of "Platonic micelles" whose aggregation number (N<sub>agg</sub>) matches the vertex number of regular polyhedra and exhibits the monodispersity and discreteness in the N<sub>agg</sub>.