Journal
LANGMUIR
Volume 32, Issue 11, Pages 2698-2707Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.6b00293
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Funding
- National Program on Key Basic Research Project [2012CB933802]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21374110, 21574121, 21234003]
- Users with Excellence of Hefei Science Center [2015HSC-UE008]
- Youth Innovation Promotion Association CAS
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Both ion-specific interaction and carbon spacer length have strong effects on the properties of polyzwitterions. In this work, we have investigated the anion specificity of poly(sulfobetaine methacrylamide) (PSBMAm) brushes with different carbon spacer lengths. The effectiveness of anions to enhance the hydration of the PSBMAm brushes increases from kosmotropic to chaotropic anions. The interactions between the anions and the PSBMAm brushes are strongly influenced by carbon spacer length because the strength of inter/intrachain association of the PSBMAm brushes decreases with increasing carbon spacer length. The inter/intrachain association of the PSBMAm brushes with a longer carbon spacer is easier to break by the external anions in the high salt concentration regime. On the other hand, a longer carbon spacer is more favorable for the zwitterionic groups to form cyclic intramolecular structures. As a result, the addition of anions can more effectively enhance the hydration of the PSBMAm brushes with a medium-length carbon spacer compared with that of the PSBMAm brushes with a either shorter or longer carbon spacer in the low salt concentration regime, determined by the balance between the inter/intrachain association and the formation of cyclic intramolecular structures. Our study also demonstrates that both anion identity and carbon spacer length can be used to control protein adsorption on the surface of the PSBMAm brushes.
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