Journal of Shanghai University(Natural Science Edition) ›› 2021, Vol. 27 ›› Issue (4): 741-748.doi: 10.12066/j.issn.1007-2861.2166

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Preparation of PDMAs-PSx block copolymer nanoparticles by RAFT dispersion PISA

LIANG Haiyang, YANG Yongqi, ZHANG Ling()   

  1. School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China
  • Received:2019-03-11 Online:2021-08-20 Published:2021-07-22
  • Contact: ZHANG Ling E-mail:linglzu@t.shu.edu.cn

Abstract:

Reversible addition-fragmentation-chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization-induced self-assembly (PISA) is a versatile and powerful strategy for preparing block copolymer nanoparticles with specific morphologies. Ethanol was used for the RAFT dispersion polymerisation of styrene (St) at 70 $^\circ$C. PDMA$_{23}$ and PDMA$_{38}$ were chosen as macromolecular chain transfer agents (CTAs). The transformation of the morphologies was altered by varying the degree of polymerizations (DPs). The experimental results showed that spheres, worms, vesicles, and compound vesicles were obtained using PDMA$_{23 }$ as the CTA. However, only well-distributed spherical nanoparticles were obtained when PDMA$_{38 }$was employed as the CTA.

Key words: reversible addition-fragmentation-chain transfer (RAFT) dispersion polymerization, polymerization-induced self-assembly (PISA), PDMA$_{s}$-PS$_{x }$ nanoparticles

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