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Synthesis of Loop Poly(Methyl Methacrylate) Brushes via Chain-End Postpolymerization Modification

Mocny, Piotr  
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Menetrey, Maxence
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Klok, Harm-Anton  
November 12, 2019
Macromolecules

Polymer brushes are typically densely grafted assemblies of polymer chains that are tethered via one end group to a solid substrate. Anchoring linear polymer chains via both end groups to a surface results in loop-type polymer brushes. Although loop polymer brushes have been shown to be able to outperform their linear, single-chain-end tethered analogues, for example, with respect to the prevention of biofouling or reducing friction, this brush architecture has received only relatively limited attention. Loop-type polymer brushes are mostly prepared following grafting-onto approaches using alpha,omega-heterobifunctional polymers. Grafting-from strategies, so far, have been rarely explored, but could further expand the range of accessible polymer molecular weights and brush grafting densities and allow the preparation of surface-attached polymer loops from a wider scope of monomers. This manuscript reports an alternative grafting-from strategy for the preparation of loop-type poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) brushes. The strategy presented here starts with the preparation of linear polymer grafts using conventional surface-initiated atom transfer radical polymerization. The free chain-ends of the linear PMMA grafts are modified with an allyl group and subsequently subjected to a metathesis reaction to induce loop closure. The formation of the loop PMMA brushes was monitored by gel permeation chromatography analysis after cleavage of the polymer from the silica nanoparticles.

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research article
DOI
10.1021/acs.macromol.9b01527
Web of Science ID

WOS:000497261600042

Author(s)
Mocny, Piotr  
Menetrey, Maxence
Klok, Harm-Anton  
Date Issued

2019-11-12

Publisher

American Chemical Society

Published in
Macromolecules
Volume

52

Issue

21

Start page

8394

End page

8403

Subjects

Polymer Science

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Polymer Science

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polymer brushes

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radical polymerization

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silica nanoparticles

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grafting density

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surface

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coatings

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opportunities

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lubrication

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enhancement

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interface

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REVIEWED

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