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MACROMOLECULAR RAPID COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 32, Issue 21, Pages 1753-1758Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1002/marc.201100421
Keywords
crystallization; hierarchical structure; poly(2 oxazoline); self-assembly; upper critical solution temperature
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- Max Planck Society through the Network of Excellence Synthetic Bioactive Surfaces
- German Research Foundation [1420]
- Ghent University [BOF11/GOA/023]
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Crystallization of poly(2-isobutyl-2-oxazoline) and poly(2-nonyl-2-oxazoline) is found to occur by room temperature annealing below the upper critical solution temperature in ethanol-water solvent mixtures. Both polymers produce similar self-assembled structures (see image), resembling the previously reported crystalline hierarchical structures obtained from hot aqueous poly(2-isopropyl-2-oxazoline) solutions above the lower critical solution temperature. These observations suggest that the crystallization induced self-assembly process is a rather general phenomenon occurring for semi-crystalline polymers in liquid-liquid two phase systems.
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