Sequence isomeric giant surfactants with distinct self-assembly behaviors in solution

Wei Zhang; Wenpeng Shan; Shuailin Zhang; Yuchu Liu; Hao Su; Jiancheng Luo; Yanfeng Xia; Tao Li; Chrys Wesdemiotis; Tianbo Liu; Honggang Cui; Yiwen Li; Stephen Z. D. Cheng

doi:10.1039/C8CC09207A

Sequence isomeric giant surfactants with distinct self-assembly behaviors in solution†

Wei Zhang,

^a Wenpeng Shan,^a Shuailin Zhang,

^a Yuchu Liu,^a Hao Su,^b Jiancheng Luo,^a Yanfeng Xia,^a Tao Li,^cd Chrys Wesdemiotis,

^ae Tianbo Liu,^a Honggang Cui,

^b Yiwen Li*^f and Stephen Z. D. Cheng

*^ag

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^a Department of Polymer Science, College of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering, The University of Akron, Akron, Ohio, USA
E-mail: scheng@uakron.edu

^b Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA

^c Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 60115, USA

^d X-ray Science Division, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, USA

^e Department of Chemistry, The University of Akron, Akron, Ohio 44325-3601, USA

^f College of Polymer Science and Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Polymer Materials Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
E-mail: ywli@scu.edu.cn

^g South China Advanced Institute for Soft Matter Science and Technology, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China

Abstract

We have designed and synthesized a pair of sequence isomeric giant surfactants based on polystyrene (PS) and polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (POSS) nanoparticles. Although these two macromolecules possess identical compositions as “sequence isomers”, the distinctly arranged POSS sequences lead to different molecular packing conformations, and further induce distinguished self-assembly behaviors in DMF/water solutions.

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Sequence isomeric giant surfactants with distinct self-assembly behaviors in solution†

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