Solution Properties of Star-Shaped Polystyrenes Having Peripheral Charged Ions
✍ Scribed by Koji Ishizu; Hideki Kitano
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 42 KB
- Volume
- 229
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0021-9797
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✦ Synopsis
Functionalized polystyrene stars were prepared by copolymerization of polystyryl lithium with divinylbenzene in a mixture of benzene/tetrahydropyran, where the polystyrene arms were prepared by anionic polymerization using [2-[(N,N-dimethylamino)-methyl]phenyl]lithium as the initiator. These functional stars were converted by quaternization with methyl iodide into polystyrene stars having peripheral positive charges. We studied the charge effects on the solution properties of such stars. The hydrodynamic dimension of peripheral charged polystyrene (PS) stars depended strongly on the solubility parameter between PS segments and solvent. Copyright 2000 Academic Press.