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Synthesis and Characterization of Amphiphilic Poly(ethylene oxide)-block-poly(hexyl methacrylate) Copolymers

✍ Scribed by Surbhi Mahajan; Sabine Renker; Peter F. W. Simon; Jochen S. Gutmann; Anurag Jain; Sol M. Gruner; Lewis J. Fetters; Geoffrey W. Coates; Ulrich Wiesner

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2003
Tongue
English
Weight
223 KB
Volume
204
Category
Article
ISSN
1022-1352

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Abstract

We describe the preparation of amphiphilic diblock copolymers made of poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) and poly(hexyl methacrylate) (PHMA) synthesized by anionic polymerization of ethylene oxide and subsequent atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) of hexyl methacrylate (HMA). The first block, PEO, is prepared by anionic polymerization of ethylene oxide in tetrahydrofuran. End capping is achieved by treatment of living PEO chain ends with 2‐bromoisobutyryl bromide to yield a macroinitiator for ATRP. The second block is added by polymerization of HMA, using the PEO macroinitiator in the presence of dibromobis(triphenylphosphine) nickel(II), NiBr~2~(PPh~3~)~2~, as the catalyst. Kinetics studies reveal absence of termination consistent with controlled polymerization of HMA. GPC data show low polydispersities of the corresponding diblock copolymers. The microdomain structure of selected PEO‐block‐PHMA block copolymers is investigated by small angle X‐ray scattering experiments, revealing behavior expected from known diblock copolymer phase diagrams.

SAXS diffractograms of PEO‐block‐PHMA diblock copolymers with 16, 44, 68 wt.‐% PEO showing spherical (A), cylindrical (B), and lamellae (C) morphologies, respectively.

magnified imageSAXS diffractograms of PEO‐block‐PHMA diblock copolymers with 16, 44, 68 wt.‐% PEO showing spherical (A), cylindrical (B), and lamellae (C) morphologies, respectively.

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