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POLYMERS
Volume 15, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/polym15081932
Keywords
diblock polymer brush; temperature response; hydrogen bond; silver catalyst
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Loading metal nanoparticles into polymer brushes has attracted much attention in catalysis, but the regulation of catalytic performance still requires improvement. Novel diblock polymer brushes, with different block sequences, were prepared and used as nanoreactors to load silver nanoparticles. The different block sequences affected the conformation and catalytic performance, with PSV@PNIPA-b-PSS@Ag showing the ability to control the amount of exposed AgNPs to regulate the reaction rate through hydrogen bonds and physical crosslinking.
Metal nanoparticles are widely used in catalysis. Loading metal nanoparticles into polymer brushes has aroused wide attention, but regulation of catalytic performance still needs to be improved. The novel diblock polymer brushes, polystyrene@sodium polystyrene sulfonate-b-poly (N-isopropylacrylamide) (PSV@PSS-b-PNIPA) and PSV@PNIPA-b-PSS with reversed block sequence, were prepared by surface initiated photoiniferter-mediated polymerization (SI-PIMP) and used as nanoreactors to load silver nanoparticles (AgNPs). The block sequence caused the difference of conformation and further affected the catalytic performance. PSV@PNIPA-b-PSS@Ag was found to be able to control the amount of AgNPs exposed to external reactant of 4-nitrophenol at different temperatures to achieve regulation of the reaction rate due to the hydrogen bonds and further physical crosslinking between PNIPA and PSS.
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