Synthesis and applications of compartmentalised molecular polymer brushes

T Pelras, CS Mahon, M Müllner - … Chemie International Edition, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Polymer science is rapidly advancing towards the precise construction of synthetic
macromolecules of formidable complexity. Beyond the impressive advances in control over …

Grubbs' and Schrock's catalysts, ring opening metathesis polymerization and molecular brushes—synthesis, characterization, properties and applications

I Choinopoulos - Polymers, 2019 - mdpi.com
In this review, molecular brushes and other macromolecular architectures bearing a
bottlebrush segment where the main chain is synthesized by ring opening metathesis …

Simple benchtop approach to polymer brush nanostructures using visible-light-mediated metal-free atom transfer radical polymerization

EH Discekici, CW Pester, NJ Treat, J Lawrence… - ACS Macro …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The development of an operationally simple, metal-free surface-initiated atom transfer
radical polymerization (SI-ATRP) based on visible-light mediation is reported. The facile …

Cylindrical polymer brushes–Anisotropic building blocks, unimolecular templates and particulate nanocarriers

M Müllner, AHE Müller - Polymer, 2016 - Elsevier
This article presents an overview of the latest key developments and research activities in
the area of cylindrical polymer brushes (CPBs), also known as 'molecular bottlebrushes' …

Tailoring the attraction of polymers toward surfaces

GE Stein, TS Laws, R Verduzco - Macromolecules, 2019 - ACS Publications
In polymer blends and block copolymers, one constituent (or segment type) is often enriched
at the surface. This enrichment has important consequences for a variety of surface …

Topological design of highly anisotropic aligned hole transporting molecular bottlebrushes for solution-processed oleds

N Kang, S Cho, EE Leonhardt, C Liu… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Polyvinyl polymers bearing pendant hole transport functionalities have been extensively
explored for solution-processed hole transport layer (HTL) technologies, yet there are only …

Dramatic tunability of the glass transition temperature and fragility of low molecular weight polystyrene by initiator fragments located at chain ends

L Zhang, JA Marsiglio, T Lan, JM Torkelson - Macromolecules, 2016 - ACS Publications
Important, yet unexplored effects of chemically distinct initiator fragments incorporated at
chain ends in linear polymer are investigated in depth. Polystyrene (PS) samples of a wide …

[PDF][PDF] Syntheses of triblock bottlebrush polymers through sequential ROMPs: Expanding the functionalities of molecular brushes

L Su, GS Heo, YN Lin, M Dong, S Zhang… - Journal of Polymer …, 2017 - academia.edu
INTRODUCTION During the past decade, functional bottlebrush polymers, or molecular
brushes, have attracted increasing attention, due to their unique physiochemical properties …

Effect of molecular architecture on the self-assembly of bottlebrush copolymers

KR Gadelrab, A Alexander-Katz - The Journal of Physical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The characteristics of a new architecture of bottlebrush copolymers (BBCPs) self-assembly
were studied using self-consistent field theory. In this molecule, a series of AB linear diblock …

An efficient route to synthesize thermoresponsive molecular bottlebrushes of poly [o-aminobenzyl alcohol-graft-poly (N-isopropylacrylamide)]

S Wang, C Liu, H Zhou, C Gao, W Zhang - Polymer Chemistry, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
A new strategy to prepare thermoresponsive molecular bottlebrushes of poly [o-aminobenzyl
alcohol-graft-poly (N-isopropylacrylamide)][P (oABA-g-PNIPAM)] via the grafting-through …