GAO Chao, QIAN Hui, WANG Shoubo, KONG Hao, WANG Shujun, YAN Deyue. BUILDING CORE-SHELL STAR POLYMERS AND POLYMER BRUSHES WITH HYDROXYL GROUPS AND DIFFERENT POLARITY LAYERS——THREE-LAYER POLYMER BRUSHES[J]. Acta Polymerica Sinica, 2004,(6):884-888.
GAO Chao, QIAN Hui, WANG Shoubo, KONG Hao, WANG Shujun, YAN Deyue. BUILDING CORE-SHELL STAR POLYMERS AND POLYMER BRUSHES WITH HYDROXYL GROUPS AND DIFFERENT POLARITY LAYERS——THREE-LAYER POLYMER BRUSHES[J]. Acta Polymerica Sinica, 2004,(6):884-888.DOI:
Based on the atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) and the large amount of functional groups of hyperbranched polymers
core-shell multi-arm star polymer brushes with gradient polarity distribution were designed and prepared. ATRP of MMA initiated from hyperbranched macroinitiator (HP-Br) in the presence of Cu(I)Br and N
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N″-pentamethyldiethylenetriamine (PMDETA) resulted in multi-arm star polymers (HP-g-PMMA).Then ATRP of HEMA with HP-g-PMMA as polymeric initiator afforded another multi-arm star polymer with hydroxyl groups (HP-g-PMMA-b-PHEMA).Accordingly
further reaction of HP-g-PMMA-b-PHEMA with 2-bromo-isobutyrylbromide produced multi-arm star polymer initiator (TL-HPB-Br).Finally
ATRP of HEMA initiated from TL-HPB-Br gave multi-arm star polymer brusches with three-layer structures.The structure of the resultant novel objects was confirmed with 1H-NMR