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Fabricating Superhydrophobic Polymeric Materials for Biomedical Applications
Published on: August 28, 2015
Water-soluble C60- and C70-PVP polymers for biomaterials with efficient (1)O2 generation
Sean Oriana1, Safwan Aroua, Justus Oliver Butz Söllner
1Laboratorium für Organische Chemie, ETH-Zürich, Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 10, Ch-8093 Zürich, Switzerland. yamakoshi@org.chem.ethz.ch.
Abstract:
Highly water-soluble fullerene polymers were successfully prepared by a simple direct free-radical copolymerization of N-vinylpyrrolidone and intact C60 or C70 as a radical-capping agent. Using AIBN as a radical initiator, the polymers (C60- or C70-PVP) with significantly high molecular weight (~30 kDa) and with efficient (1)O2 generation were obtained.
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