Degradable Polymer Stars Based on Tannic Acid Cores by ATRP
Degradable Polymer Stars Based on Tannic Acid Cores by ATRP
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DOI:
10.3390/polym11050752
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发表时间:
2019-05-01
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5
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Matyjaszewski, Krzysztof
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作者:
Cuthbert, Julia;Yerneni, Saigopalakrishna S.;Matyjaszewski, Krzysztof
Degradable polymers are crucial in order to reduce plastic environmental pollution and waste accumulation. In this paper, a natural product, tannic acid was modified to be used as a polymer star core. The tannic acid was modified with atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) initiators and characterized by H-1 NMR, FT-IR, and XPS. Twenty-five arm polymer stars were prepared by photoinduced ATRP of poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) or poly(oligo(ethylene oxide) methacrylate) (molar mass M-w = 300 g/mol) (P(OEO(300)MA)). The polymer stars were degraded by cleaving the polymer star arms attached to the core by phenolic esters under mild basic conditions. The stars were analyzed before and after degradation by gel permeation chromatography (GPC). Cytotoxicity assays were performed on the P(OEO(300)MA) stars and corresponding degraded polymers, and were found to be nontoxic at the concentrations tested.