Εξειδίκευση τύπου :	Άρθρο σε επιστημονικό περιοδικό
Τίτλος:	Thermoresponsive Brush Copolymers with Poly(propylene oxide-ran-ethylene oxide) Side Chains via Metal-Free Anionic Polymerization "Grafting From" Technique
Δημιουργός/Συγγραφέας:	Zhao, Junpeng Zhang, Guangzhao [EL] Πίσπας, Στέργιος[EN] Pispas, Stergios
Εκδότης:	John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Τόπος έκδοσης:	HOBOKEN
Ημερομηνία:	2010-06-01
Γλώσσα:	Αγγλικά
ISSN:	0887-624X
DOI:	10.1002/pola.23997
Περίληψη:	Thermoresponsive brush copolymers with poly(propylene oxide-ran-ethylene oxide) side chains were synthesized via a "grafting from" technique. Poly(p-hydroxystyrene) was used as the backbone, and the brush copolymers were prepared by random copolymerization of mixtures of oxyalkylene monomers, using metal-free anionic ring-opening polymerization, with the phosphazene base (t-BuP(4)) being the polymerization promoter. By controlling the monomer feed ratios in the graft copolymerization, two samples with the same side-chain length and different compositions were prepared, both of which possessed high molecular weights and low molecular weight distributions. The results from light scattering and fluorescence spectroscopy indicated that the brush copolymers in their dilute aqueous solutions were near completely solvated at low temperature and underwent slight intramolecular chain contraction/association and much more profound intermolecular aggregation at different stages of the step-by-step heating process. Above 50 degrees C, very turbid solutions, followed by macrophase separation, were observed for both of the samples, which implied that it was difficult for the brush copolymers to form stable nanoscopic aggregates at high temperature. All these observations were attributed, at least partly, to the distribution of the oxyalkylene monomers along the side chains and the overall brush-like molecular architecture.
Τίτλος πηγής δημοσίευσης:	Journal of Polymer Science Part A-polymer Chemistry
Τόμος/Κεφάλαιο:	48
Τεύχος:	11
Σελίδες:	2320-2328
Λέξεις-Κλειδιά:	anionic polymerization graft copolymers random copolymer side chains stimuli-sensitive polymers Polymer Science
Αξιολόγηση από ομότιμους (peer reviewed):	Ναι
Κάτοχος πνευματικών δικαιωμάτων:	© 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 48: 2320-2328,2010
Ηλεκτρονική διεύθυνση περιοδικού (link) :	http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jhome/36444
Εμφανίζεται στις συλλογές:	Ινστιτούτο Θεωρητικής και Φυσικής Χημείας (ΙΘΦΧ) - Επιστημονικό έργο