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MACROMOLECULAR RAPID COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 34, Issue 2, Pages 156-162Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/marc.201200636
Keywords
atomic force microscopy; block copolymers; micelles; polysulfides
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- Knoledge Centre of Materials Chemistry (KCMC) of the University of Manchester
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We report for the first time the combination of ATRP and ring-opening episulfide polymerization as a means to synthesize polysulfide-based low-dispersity amphiphilic block copolymers. The most significant finding is the possibility to perform ATRP under mild conditions using poly(propylene sulfide) macroinitiators, apparently without any significant copper sequestration by the polysulfides. Using glycerol monomethacrylate (GMMA) as a hydrophilic monomer, the polymers self-assembled in colloidal structures with a morphology depending on the PS/GMMA ratio, but also probably on GMMA degree of polymerization. We here also present a new AFM-based method to calculate the average number of amphiphilic macromolecules per micelle.
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