Thermo-responsive brush copolymers with structure-tunable LCST and switchable surface wettability
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Thermo-responsive brush copolymers poly(methyl methacrylate (MMA)-co-2-(2-bromoisobutyryloxy) ethyl methacrylate (BIEM)-graft-(N-isopropyl-acrylamide) (NIPAAm)) were synthesized using Cumediated “living” radical polymerization (LRP) approach. Varied grafting densities of the brushes were obtained through adjusting backbone structure as random, gradient and block respectively. The effect of grafting densities on their thermo-responsive phase transition behaviors in aqueous solution and on surface were investigated in detail. The lower critical solution temperature (LCST) of brush copolymers in solution was adjusted as 35, 37 and 38 C through random, gradient and block backbone structure respectively. Their structure tunable thermo-responsive phase transition in solution were further confirmed by the different micelle aggregation behaviors above LCST which monitored by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) images and dynamic light scattering (DLS). In addition, surfaces modified by the resulted brush copolymers have a temperature tunable wettability based on thermo-responsive phase transition in solid, the similar WCA variation range of three brush copolymers implies that the composition of backbone does not much affect the switchable wettability of surfaces. © 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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