Issue 3, 2020

Surface-grafted polyacrylonitrile brushes with aggregation-induced emission properties

Abstract

Polyacrylonitrile (PAN) was synthesized and grafted from silicon wafers by copper-mediated photoinduced atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) using α-bromophenyl acetic acid-based initiators. Aggregation-induced photonic emission (AIE) was observed in well-defined, low molecular weight (Mn < 10k) bulk PAN as well as in thin (d < 15 nm), surface-grafted polymer brushes.

Graphical abstract: Surface-grafted polyacrylonitrile brushes with aggregation-induced emission properties

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Article information

Article type
Communication
Submitted
12 Aug. 2019
Accepted
06 Dec. 2019
First published
09 Dec. 2019
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

Polym. Chem., 2020,11, 669-674

Surface-grafted polyacrylonitrile brushes with aggregation-induced emission properties

M. Kopeć, M. Pikiel and G. J. Vancso, Polym. Chem., 2020, 11, 669 DOI: 10.1039/C9PY01213C

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