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POLYMER
Volume 45, Issue 20, Pages 6845-6851Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2004.07.038
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hydrophobic interaction; inclusion complex; cyclodextrin
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The influence of hydrophobic interaction between poly [(R)-3-hydroxybutyrate] blocks on block-selected inclusion complexation between amphiphilic poly(ethylene oxide)-poly[(R)-3-hydroxybutyrate]-poly(ethylene oxide)) (PEO-PHB-PEO) triblock copolymers and alpha-cyclodextrin (alpha-CD) or gamma-cyclodextrin (gamma-CD) was studied by X-ray diffraction, differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), FTIR and H-1 NMR. Due to the stronger hydrophobic interaction at higher temperature, the amphiphilic triblock copolymer tends to aggregate to form tighter core-shell sphere with PHB block in the core and PEO in the corona. Therefore, the CD threaded onto PEO blocks cannot further slide onto the PHB block, which resulted in a highly block-selected inclusion complex formation. Moreover, the DSC results indicated that the triblock copolymer coalesced from its ICs with hot water showed an increase in microphase separation compared with the as-synthesized triblock copolymer, which further supports our hypothesis that CD only selectively includes PEO blocks of the triblock copolymer at higher temperature. (C) 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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