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Synthesis and aqueous solution properties of a well-defined thermo-responsive schizophrenic diblock copolymer
J V M Weaver1, S P Armes, V Bütün
1School of Chemistry, Physics and Environmental Science, Sussex University, Falmer, Brighton, East Sussex, UK BN1 9QJ.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|October 3, 2002
Abstract:
We report only the second example of a thermo-responsive 'schizophrenic' diblock copolymer surfactant: unlike the original (meth)acrylamide-based example reported by Laschewsky and co-workers (J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2002, 124, 3787), this new methacrylate-based diblock copolymer is near-monodisperse, readily synthesized in high yield and exhibits a broad temperature range between the two micelle transitions.