Issue 7, 2014
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Soft Matter

Topochemical polymerization in self-assembled rodlike micelles of bisurea bolaamphiphiles†

Asish Pal,a   Panayiotis Voudouris,b   Marcel M. E. Koenigs,a   Pol Besenius,a   Hans M. Wyss,b   Volkan Degirmencic  and  Rint P. Sijbesma*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Laboratory of Macromolecular and Organic Chemistry, Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands
E-mail: r.p.sijbesma@tue.nl
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b Institute for Complex Molecular Systems and Department of Mechanical Engineering, Structure and Rheology of Complex Fluids, Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

c Inorganic Materials Chemistry, Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Abstract

Rod-like micelles, formed from bolaamphiphiles with oligo(ethylene oxide) hydrophilic outer segments and a hydrophobic segment with diacetylene flanked by two urea moieties, were covalently fixated by topochemical photopolymerization to high degrees of polymerization by optimizing the hydrophobic core and the hydrophilic periphery of the bolaamphiphiles. Analysis of the polymerized product with dynamic light scattering in chloroform showed degrees of polymerization of approximately 250. Cryo-TEM of bolaamphiphiles before and after UV irradiation showed that the morphology of the rods was conserved upon topochemical polymerization.

Graphical abstract: Topochemical polymerization in self-assembled rodlike micelles of bisurea bolaamphiphiles

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C3SM52605D
Article type
Communication
Submitted
08 Oct 2013
Accepted
28 Nov 2013
First published
02 Dec 2013

Soft Matter, 2014,10, 952-956

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Topochemical polymerization in self-assembled rodlike micelles of bisurea bolaamphiphiles

A. Pal, P. Voudouris, M. M. E. Koenigs, P. Besenius, H. M. Wyss, V. Degirmenci and R. P. Sijbesma, Soft Matter, 2014, 10, 952 DOI: 10.1039/C3SM52605D

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