Self‐Assembly and Critical Solubility Temperature of Supramolecular Polystyrene Bottle‐Brushes in Cyclohexane
Résumé
The formation of polystyrene (PS) supramolecular bottle-brushes by self-assembly in cyclohexane of hydrogen-bonding tris(urea) units decorated by PS chains was investigated using light and neutron scattering. Atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) was used to control the length of the PS side-chains and allowed the straightforward synthesis of the targeted tris(urea)s. It was shown that their extent of self-assembly strongly depended on the degree of polymerization and chemical nature of the polymer side chains, in contrast with what was previously observed with cyclic oligopeptides, another type of self-assembling units. With sufficiently short PS side-chains, anisotropic supramolecular bottle-brushes could be obtained. Their critical solubility temperature, Tc, was measured in cyclohexane, proving experimentally for the first time that densely grafted PS bottle-brushes exhibit a much lower Tc than linear PS or even star-shaped PS of similar molecular weight.
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Chimie
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