Facile preparation of core-crosslinked micelles from azide-containing thermoresponsive double hydrophilic diblock copolymer via click chemistry
Facile preparation of core-crosslinked micelles from azide-containing thermoresponsive double hydrophilic diblock copolymer via click chemistry
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10.1002/pola.22430
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2008-02-01
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Liu, Shiyong
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作者:
Jiang, Xiaoze;Zhang, Jingyan;Liu, Shiyong
Double hydrophilic diblock copolymer, poly(N,N-dimethylacrylamide)-b-poly(N-isopropylacrylamide-co-3-azidopropylacrylamide) (]PDMA-b-P(NIPAM-co-AzPAM), containing azide moieties in one of the blocks was synthesized via consecutive reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer polymerization. The obtained diblock copolymer molecularly dissolves in aqueous solution at room temperature, and can further supramolecularly self-assemble into core-shell nanoparticles consisting of thermoresponsive P(NIPAM-co-AzPAM) cores and water-soluble PDMA coronas above the lower critical solution temperature of P(NIPAM-co-AzPAM) block. As the micelle cores contain reactive azide residues, core crosslinking can be facilely achieved upon addition of difunctional propargyl ether via click chemistry. In an alternate approach in which the PDMA-b-P(NIPAM-co-AzPAM) diblock copolymer was dissolved in a common organic solvent (DMF), the core-crosslinked (CCL) micelles can be fabricated via "click" crosslinking upon addition of propargyl ether and subsequent dialysis against water. CCL micelles prepared by the latter approach typically possess larger sizes and broader size distributions, compared with that obtained by the former one. In both cases, the obtained (CCL) micelles possess thermoresponsive cores, and the swelling/shrinking of which can be finely tuned with temperature, rendering them as excellent candidates as intelligent drug nanocarriers. Because of the high efficiency and quite mild conditions of click reactions, we expect that this strategy can be generalized for the structural fixation of other self-assembled nanostructures. (C) 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.