Side-Chain Architecture-Dependent Thermoresponsive Behaviors of Graft Polymers with Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) Pendants

IF 5.1 1区化学 Q1 POLYMER SCIENCE

Macromolecules Pub Date : 2025-01-30 DOI:10.1021/acs.macromol.4c0261110.1021/acs.macromol.4c02611

Fujin Duan, Gege Liu, Jinqian Zhang, Xin Zhao, Qingqing Wang and Youliang Zhao*,

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Abstract

The variations of side-chain architecture can significantly affect the thermoresponsive behaviors of graft polymers. This study is aimed at designing linear graft polymers with linear or cyclic pendants (LGPLs/LGPCs) to elucidate the distinct thermostability of polymer solutions. Three pairs of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAM)-bearing graft polymers with a weight-average graft number (N_g) up to 16 are synthesized by the combination of the ring-first method, fractionation, and topology transformation. The chain architecture and graft number can affect the thermostability and thermosensitivity of polymer aqueous solutions, in which thermo-induced maximal variations of transmittance, light scattering intensity, and fluorescence intensity ratio related to amide–water hydrogen bonding drastically decrease with the incorporation of cyclic pendants and an increase of N_g. LGPLs with pronounced chain entanglement can self-assemble into thermostable lamellae, while other polymer assemblies are subjected to thermo-induced sphere-to-vesicle or vesicle-to-lamella transitions. This research affords a promising method to construct graft polymers with variable architectural parameters to achieve topology-dependent thermoresponsive behaviors.

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Macromolecules 工程技术-高分子科学

CiteScore

9.30

自引率

16.40%

发文量

942

审稿时长

2 months

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