Biotinylated and non-biotinylated copolymers of poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) and poly(2-(diethylamino)ethyl methacrylate) (PDEAEMA) were synthesized by the atom transfer radical polymerization technique. The chemical compositions of the copolymers as determined by NMR are represented by PEO(113)PDEAEMA(70) and biotin-PEO(104)PDEAEMA(93), respectively. The aggregation behavior of these polymers in...

A novel blue light-emitting coil-rod-coil triblock oligomer, PEO-PHP-PEO, which consists of para-hexaphenyl (PHP) as the rigid rod and poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO, M w = 750) as the flexible coil, has been synthesized. It is the first soluble poly(para-phenylene) molecule containing no lateral substituent, which can dissolve not only in organic solvents such as chloroform and THF, but also in wat...

Abstract Biomolecule adsorption is the first stage of biofouling. The aim of this work was to reduce the adsorption of proteins on stainless steel (SS) and titanium surfaces by modifying them with a poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO)-poly(propylene oxide) (PPO)-PEO triblock copolymer. Anchoring of the central PPO block of the copolymer is known to be favoured by hydrophobic interaction with the substra...

Hemicelluloses dissolved in the pre-hydrolysis liquor (PHL) of kraftbased dissolving pulping processes can potentially be used to produce high value-added products such as fuel ethanol and xylitol. However, the isolation of lignin in PHL is a problem that remains unsolved and obstructs the utilization of those parts of hemicelluloses. Based on the principle of lignin isolation by acidification,...

Electrospinning is an effective processing method for preparing nanofibers decorated with functional groups. Nanofibers decorated with functional groups may be utilized to study material-biomarker interactions i.e. act as biosensors with potential as single molecule detectors. We have developed an effective approach for preparing functional polymers where the functionality has the capacity of s...