Stimuli-Responsive Diblock Copolymers by Living Cationic Polymerization: Precision Synthesis and Highly Sensitive Physical Gelation
Stimuli-Responsive Diblock Copolymers by Living Cationic Polymerization: Precision Synthesis and Highly Sensitive Physical Gelation
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DOI:
10.1021/ma035037t
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发表时间:
2004
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影响因子:
5.5
通讯作者:
S. Sugihara;K. Hashimoto;S. Okabe;M. Shibayama;S. Kanaoka;S. Aoshima
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作者:
S. Sugihara;K. Hashimoto;S. Okabe;M. Shibayama;S. Kanaoka;S. Aoshima
Stimuli-responsive diblock copolymers with a thermosensitive segment and a hydrophilic segment have been synthesized via sequential living cationic copolymerization, which involves a poly(vinyl ether) with oxyethylene pendants exhibiting LCST-type phase separation in water and a poly(hydroxyethyl vinyl ether) segment. Highly sensitive and reversible thermally induced micelle formation and/or physical gelation were observed with such diblock copolymers. For example, the flow behavior of an aqueous solution of a diblock copolymer varied from Newtonian to non-Newtonian and plastic flow within a very narrow temperature range. TEM and SANS studies showed that the observed change in viscosity was due to the formation of a macrolattice with body-centered-cubic symmetry of spherical micelles in aqueous solution. The critical temperature of micelle formation and/or physical gelation could be varied by altering the combination of two segments in the diblock copolymer. On the basis of these results, several systems ...