Temperature and pH dual-responsive behavior of polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane-based star-block copolymer with poly(acrylic acid-block-N-isopropylacrylamide) as arms
02 engineering and technology
0210 nano-technology
DOI:
10.1007/s00396-011-2562-1
Publication Date:
2011-12-19T13:04:15Z
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Poly(acrylic acid-block-N-isopropylacrylamide) (PAAc-b-PNIPAm)-tethered octafunctional polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (POSS) were synthesized via POSS-initialized atom transfer radical polymerization. When very short PAAc blocks are placed between the POSS core and PNIPAm short chains, the critical temperature (T c) of POSS-PAAc-b-PNIPAm determined by cloud point measurements varies in a wide temperature range with pH, and its T c is even lower than that of POSS-PNIPAm with similar chain length at pH = 5.0, indicating a synergic effect between high local chain density and intramolecular interaction between PAAc and PNIPAm. When the PAAc blocks are relatively long, the pH response of POSS-PAAc-b-PNIPAm diminishes owing to the reduced local PNIPAm chain density.
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