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Synthesis of Well-defined Amphiphilic Block Copolymers by Organotellurium-Mediated Living Radical Polymerization (TERP)

  1. Santosh Kumar1,2,
  2. Mohammad Changez1,
  3. C. N. Murthy2,
  4. Shigeru Yamago3,
  5. Jae-Suk Lee1,*

Article first published online: 26 JUL 2011

DOI: 10.1002/marc.201100277

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Macromolecular Rapid Communications

Macromolecular Rapid Communications

Volume 32, Issue 19, pages 1576–1582, October 4, 2011

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Kumar, S., Changez, M., Murthy, C. N., Yamago, S. and Lee, J.-S. (2011), Synthesis of Well-defined Amphiphilic Block Copolymers by Organotellurium-Mediated Living Radical Polymerization (TERP). Macromol. Rapid Commun., 32: 1576–1582. doi: 10.1002/marc.201100277

Author Information

  1. 1

    Department of Nanobio Materials and Electronics and School of Materials Science and Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), 1 Oryong-dong, Buk-gu, Gwangju, 500-712, Korea

  2. 2

    Applied Chemistry Department, Faculty of Technology and Engineering, The M. S. University of Baroda, Vadodara, Gujarat, 390-001, India

  3. 3

    Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Uji, Kyoto, 611-0011, Japan

*Department of Nanobio Materials and Electronics and School of Materials Science and Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), 1 Oryong-dong, Buk-gu, Gwangju, 500-712, Korea Fax: (+82)629702304.

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 23 SEP 2011
  2. Article first published online: 26 JUL 2011
  3. Manuscript Revised: 29 JUN 2011
  4. Manuscript Received: 28 APR 2011

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Keywords:

  • amphiphilic;
  • block copolymers;
  • DSC;
  • electron microscopy;
  • gel permeation chromatography (GPC);
  • nanocomposites

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Low-molecular weight amphiphilic diblock copolymers, polystyrene-block-poly (2-vinylpyridine) (PS-b-P2VP), and (P2VP-b-PS) with different block ratios were synthesized for the first time via organotellurium-mediated living radical polymerization (TERP). For both the homo- and block copolymerizations, good agreement between the theoretical, and experimental molecular weights was found with nearly 100% yield in every case. The molecular weight distribution for all the samples ranged between 1.10 and 1.24, which is well below the theoretical lower limit of 1.50 for a conventional free radical polymerization. Furthermore, a very simple approach to producing highly dense arrays of titania nanoparticles (TiO2) is presented using a site-selective reaction of titanium tetraisopropoxide within the P2VP domains of micellar film of P2VP-b-PS in toluene through the sol–gel method.

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