Cylindrical Micelles by the Self-Assembly of Crystalline-b-Coil Polyphosphazene-b-P2VP Block Copolymers. Stabilization of Gold Nanoparticles

Autor: Raquel de la Campa, Carlos Díaz, María Luisa Valenzuela, Gabino A. Carriedo, Maria de los Angeles Cortes, Alejandro Presa Soto
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Molecules
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Molecules, Vol 24, Iss 9, p 1772 (2019)
RUO. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Oviedo
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Volume 24
Issue 9
ISSN: 1420-3049
Popis: During the last number of years a variety of crystallization-driven self-assembly (CDSA) processes based on semicrystalline block copolymers have been developed to prepare a number of different nanomorphologies in solution (micelles). We herein present a convenient synthetic methodology combining: (i) The anionic polymerization of 2-vinylpyridine initiated by organolithium functionalized phosphane initiators
(ii) the cationic polymerization of iminophosphoranes initiated by &ndash
PR2Cl2
and (iii) a macromolecular nucleophilic substitution step, to prepare the novel block copolymers poly(bistrifluoroethoxy phosphazene)-b-poly(2-vinylpyridine) (PTFEP-b-P2VP), having semicrystalline PTFEP core forming blocks. The self-assembly of these materials in mixtures of THF (tetrahydrofuran) and 2-propanol (selective solvent to P2VP), lead to a variety of cylindrical micelles of different lengths depending on the amount of 2-propanol added. We demonstrated that the crystallization of the PTFEP at the core of the micelles is the main factor controlling the self-assembly processes. The presence of pyridinyl moieties at the corona of the micelles was exploited to stabilize gold nanoparticles (AuNPs).
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