Author : Kan Wu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (882 download)
Book Synopsis Synthesis and Characterization of Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquiozane Based Giant Molecular Shape Amphiphiles by : Kan Wu
Download or read book Synthesis and Characterization of Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquiozane Based Giant Molecular Shape Amphiphiles written by Kan Wu and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three kinds of giant molecular shape amphiphiles (GMSAs) composed of functionalized polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (POSS) cages and polystyrene (PS), including bolaform GMSAs (DPOSS-PS-DPOSS), double heads GMSAs (2DPOSS-PS) and hetero-POSS GMSAs (BPSS-PS-DPOSS), have been designed and synthesized via a sequential "click" methodology, which combines the ATRP, the copper-catalyzed Huisgen [3+2] cycloaddition (CuAAC) "click" reaction and the thiol-ene "click" reaction.[1,2] These molecules were fully characterized by 1H and 13C NMR, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight (MALDI-TOF) Mass Spectroscopy and gel permeation chromatograph (GPC). The self-assembly behaviors of BPSS-PS-DPOSS in bulk was studied by X-ray scattering techniques and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Investigation on the self-assembly behaviors of BPOSS-PS-DPOSS shape amphiphiles reveals that these samples can micro-phase separate into a variety of different ordered structures, with feature sizes of the micro-domains being around or even below 10 nm. Hydrophilic DPOSS cages have strong enough competing interactions with PS, driving the formation of the self-assembled structures; while BPOSS cages are found favorably distributed within the PS domain. In the Lam phase, the BPOSS cages tend to form crystalline aggregations, due to the existence of the linear confinement with flat interfaces; while in other self-assembled structures, BPOSS cages are found randomly distributed in the PS matrix.