Issue 15, 2018
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Soft Matter

Preparation of a photo- and thermo-responsive topological gel from anthracene-modified polyrotaxanes†

Zhao Li, ORCID logo ‡a   Shan Su, ORCID logo ‡b   Lin Yu,a   Zhen Zhenga  and  Xinling Wang ORCID logo *a  

* Corresponding authors

a School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Metal Matrix Composites, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai, China
E-mail: xlwang@sjtu.edu.cn

b Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Key Laboratory of Polymer Chemistry and Physics of Ministry of Education, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, 5 Yiheyuan Road, Beijing 100871, China

Abstract

A topological gel was formed from anthracene-modified polyrotaxanes (An-PRs) under UV irradiation, and the gel can turn back to a sol under thermal treatment due to the dimerization between the anthracene units and the dissociation of the formed dimer.

Graphical abstract: Preparation of a photo- and thermo-responsive topological gel from anthracene-modified polyrotaxanes

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C8SM00376A
Article type
Communication
Submitted
23 Feb 2018
Accepted
20 Mar 2018
First published
20 Mar 2018

Soft Matter, 2018,14, 2767-2771

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Preparation of a photo- and thermo-responsive topological gel from anthracene-modified polyrotaxanes

Z. Li, S. Su, L. Yu, Z. Zheng and X. Wang, Soft Matter, 2018, 14, 2767 DOI: 10.1039/C8SM00376A

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