Preparation of Narrowly Distributed Stable and Soluble Polyacetylene Block Copolymer Nanoparticles
Preparation of Narrowly Distributed Stable and Soluble Polyacetylene Block Copolymer Nanoparticles
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DOI:
10.1021/ja983587e
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发表时间:
1999-02
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15
通讯作者:
Chi Wu;A. Niu;L. Leung;T. Lam
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作者:
Chi Wu;A. Niu;L. Leung;T. Lam
Forty years ago, polyacetylene (PA) as a black powder was first discovered by Natta et al. 1 Twenty years later, Chiang et al.2 found that the doped PA film had a conductivity close to metal. As a potential conducting and nonlinear optical material, polyacetylene has been extensively studied in the last two decades. 3 However, polyacetylene is so intractable that its many potential applications have been hindered. It has been a long dream in the field to modify polyacetylene so that it could be processed into different real components for real applications. On the other hand, extensive studies showed that block and graft copolymers could form polymeric micelles in solution if one could make one of the blocks insoluble. 4-9 It is generally accepted that diblock copolymeric micelles have a core -shell nanostructure with the insoluble block as the core and the soluble block as the swollen shell, resembling small molecule surfactant micelles. Normally, the solvent quality was varied by slowly adding a copolymer solution into a nonsolvent for one of the polymer blocks. For water-soluble block copolymers, one could also vary the solution temperature to induce the micelle formation if one of the blocks could change from hydrophilic to hydrophobic at higher temperatures. 10 Note that the micelle formation is thermodynamically driven and the process is usually so fast in dilute solution that its observation is difficult, if not impossible. To our knowledge, the formation kinetics has not yet been reported. Recently, Leung et al. 11 reported that poly(phenyl vinyl sulfoxide) (PVSO) could be slowly converted into polyacetylene upon heating. The morphology and the electrical properties of PVSO before and after thermolysis in bulk and its thermolysis kinetics and optical properties in solution have been studied. 11-13