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MACROMOLECULES
Volume 42, Issue 15, Pages 5786-5792Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ma9007913
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- National Science Foundation [CH-0645737]
- NIH [T32 GM065086-5]
- ACS PRF [46620-G7]
- Vanderbilt University
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We present the synthesis of polymeric nanoparticles from single ABA type block copolymers in an intramolecular-chain process to result 3-D architectures that confine a single chain of conducting copolymers. ABA triblock copolymers were prepared from conducting polymers such as fluorene homopolymers and fluorene/thiophene copolymers designed as telechelic macroinitiators to facilitate nitroxide-mediated living free radical polymerization methods. The polymerization with styrene and vinylbenzosulfone cross-linking units led to the desired ABA triblock copolymers with 8:1:8 and 5:1:5 ratios of the polymer copolymer blocks under living free radical polymerization conditions. In an intramolecular chain collapse process the ABA triblock copolymers form well-defined single chain nanoparticles with the confined semiconducting polymer block as core unit via a controlled cross-linking of the benzosulfone unit in the A block copolymer. The photoluminescence measurements illustrate the influence of the molecular weight of the A block to be crucial for the site isolation of the embedded conducting polymer block in the resulting nanoparticles with increased quantum efficiencies of 6%.
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