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MACROMOLECULES
Volume 36, Issue 22, Pages 8253-8259Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ma030258k
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Polystyrene (PS)/poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) amphiphilic star-block copolymers and dendrimer-like architectures were prepared using a core-first method. PS stars were first obtained by atom transfer radical polymerization using three and four functional benzyl halides. The chain ends of these star polymers were subsequently modified to generate either the same or twice the number of hydroxyl groups that served to grow the PEO blocks by anionic polymerization of ethylene oxide. Well-defined PSn-b-PEOn (n = 3 or 4) stars and PS3-b-PEO6 dendrimer-like copolymers exhibiting a monomodal and narrow molar mass distribution were obtained in this way. When spread at the air/water interface, these stars proved to be surface active, forming stable reproducible films. Isotherms yielded A(0) (theoretical surface area occupied by a film at zero pressure) values, allowing for quantitative comparisons between the stars and linear diblock analogues. Both structures demonstrated similar behavior, passing from liquid expanded regions to highly compressed structures at comparable molecular areas.
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