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ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS
Volume 19, Issue 13, Pages 2095-2101Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.200900316
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- Max-Planck Society
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Organic pigments are important crystalline substances, and their properties and applications rely on size and shape control. Pigment Yello 181 (PY181) is an industrial azo pigment that is light and weatherfast and suitable for high temperature processing. One disadvantage is its needle-like shape in the default beta-phase, which makes the pigment difficult to process in industry, e.g., in polymer melts, where a spherical structure would be ideal. Here, we show for the first time, that polymer-induced liquid precursor structures can be formed even in association to a chemical reaction. Furthermore, it is demonstrated that biomineralization principles can be exploited for the generation of advanced functional materials, such as pigments with novel complex morphology and different properties. Stable PY181 microspheres of nanoplates in the beta-phase were obtained in mixed solvents of water and isopropanol by direct azo coupling under the directing influence of a designed copolymer additive aminobenzoylaminobenzamide-acetoacetyl-poly(ethyleneimine)-block-poly(ethylene glycol) (ABABA-acetoacetyl-PEI-b-PEG).
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