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Functionalization of Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes with Thermo-reversible Block Copolymers and Characterization by Small-angle Neutron Scattering
Published on: June 1, 2016
Thermoresponsive cyclic peptide--poly(2-ethyl-2-oxazoline) conjugate nanotubes
Robert Chapman1, Petra J M Bouten, Richard Hoogenboom
1Key Centre for Polymers & Colloids, School of Chemistry, Building F11, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia.
Abstract:
We describe the synthesis of self-assembling cyclic octapeptides of alternating D- and L-chirality conjugated to two poly(2-ethyl-2-oxazoline) chains. The resulting conjugates form nanotubes in water, which are reversibly transformed into microparticles as the temperature reaches the cloud point temperature of the conjugate.

