Microfabrication of high-performance aromatic polymers as nanotubes or fibrils by in situ ring-opening polymerisation of macrocyclic precursors

Howard M. Colquhoun; Mikhail G. Zolotukhin; Lionel G. Sestiaa; Fabio Aricó; Zhixue Zhu; Philip Hodge; Abderrazak Ben-Haida; David J. Williams

doi:10.1039/B303948J

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Journal of Materials Chemistry

Issue 7, 2003

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Microfabrication of high-performance aromatic polymers as nanotubes or fibrils by in situ ring-opening polymerisation of macrocyclic precursors

Howard M. Colquhoun,*^a Mikhail G. Zolotukhin,^a Lionel G. Sestiaa,^a Fabio Aricó,^a Zhixue Zhu,^a Philip Hodge,*^b Abderrazak Ben-Haida^b and David J. Williams*^c

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School of Chemistry, University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading, UK
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Department of Chemistry, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, UK
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Department of Chemistry, Imperial College, South Kensington, London, UK
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J. Mater. Chem., 2003,13, 1504-1506

DOI: 10.1039/B303948J
Received 08 Apr 2003, Accepted 19 May 2003
First published online 27 May 2003

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Melt-phase nucleophilic ring-opening polymerisation of macrocyclic aromatic ethers and thioethers at high temperatures within the cylindrical pores of an anodic-alumina membrane, followed by dissolution of the template, enables replication of the membrane's internal pore structure and so affords high-performance aromatic polymers with well-defined fibrillar or tubular morphologies.