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One-pot radical polymerization of one inimer to form one-dimensional polymeric nanomaterials
Pengju Ma1, Hui Nie, Qingqing Zhou
1CAS Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Chemistry, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China, 230026.
Advanced Materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
|September 11, 2012
Abstract:
A one-pot polymerization strategy is put forward for producing 1D polymeric nanomaterials directly from a single inimer. An inimer bearing an NMP initiating site is polymerized in the presence of a RAFT CTA to form a pearl-necklace structure constituted of hyperbranched polymer "pearls". The obtained 1D nanorods show high regularity evidenced by the long-range order in small angle XRD patterns and the formation of liquid crystalline phases.