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| Journal Article | FZJ-2015-00523 |
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2013
Wiley-VCH
Weinheim
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Please use a persistent id in citations: doi:10.1002/macp.201200733
Abstract: The synthesis of polystyrene (PS) brushes on fully deuterated PS nanoparticles by surface-initiated nitroxide-mediated radical polymerization (SI-NMRP) is reported. Due to the high demand of deuterated monomers, an efficient deuteration procedure of suitable and readily available precursors is developed. SI-NMRP of styrene is improved regarding reaction control, grafting density, and conversion. Insights into the scaling behavior and conformational features of surface-attached PS chains on deuterated particles are investigated by using dynamic light scattering measurements, proving that polymer brushes are formed. The particles with surface-attached initiator are shown to be uniform spherical core-shell particles by small-angle neutron scattering measurements.
Keyword(s): Polymers, Soft Nano Particles and Proteins (1st) ; Key Technologies (1st) ; Soft Matter, Macromolecules, Complex fluids, Biophysics (1st) ; Soft Condensed Matter (2nd)
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