Interpolymer Association of Cholesterol Pendants Linked to a Polyelectrolyte As Studied by Quasielastic Light Scattering and Fluorescence Techniques
Interpolymer Association of Cholesterol Pendants Linked to a Polyelectrolyte As Studied by Quasielastic Light Scattering and Fluorescence Techniques
复制标题
通过准弹性光散射和荧光技术研究了与聚电解质连接的胆固醇侧链的互聚物缔合
作者:
S. Yusa;and Akihito Hashidzume;Y. Morishima
The association behavior of random copolymers of sodium 2-(acrylamido)-2-methylpropanesulfonate (AMPS) and cholesteryl 6-methacryloyloxyhexanoate (Chol-C5-MA) in 0.1 M NaCl aqueous solutions was investigated by quasielastic light scattering and fluorescence techniques to gain further insights into the structures and properties of their “intermolecularly bridged flower-type micelles” which we had proposed previously. When the Chol-C5-MA content in the copolymer was as low as 1 mol %, unimers were found to coexist with the interpolymer aggregates independent of the polymer concentration (CP) in a range 0.1 < CP < 10 g/L. However, when the Chol-C5-MA content was increased to 5 mol %, virtually all the polymer chains form multipolymer aggregates which can be viewed as an assembly of flower-type micelles where polymer chains are “cross-linked” via Chol associations. The aggregation number of Chol moieties was estimated to be 17−19 for the copolymer of 5 mol % Chol-C5-MA by a time-resolved fluorescence quenchin...