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  • Materials Science
  • Computational Chemistry

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  • Polymerization-induced self-assembly (PISA) is a powerful technique for creating nanostructures.
  • Predicting suitable monomers for PISA remains challenging.
  • Understanding monomer hydrophobicity changes during polymerization is key to controlling self-assembly.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and validate an in silico method for predicting monomers capable of undergoing PISA.
  • To identify novel monomers for aqueous PISA using reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization.
  • To correlate computational predictions with experimental self-assembly behavior and nanostructure morphology.

Main Methods:

  • Calculated the dependence of LogP_oct/surface area (SA) on growing polymer chain length to determine hydrophobicity changes during polymerization.
  • Utilized this in silico method to screen and identify potential monomers for aqueous PISA.
  • Synthesized and polymerized identified monomers via RAFT polymerization to experimentally confirm PISA and nanostructure formation.

Main Results:

  • Identified five new monomers suitable for aqueous PISA.
  • Confirmed successful PISA of these monomers, yielding nanostructures with diverse morphologies.
  • Demonstrated that the in silico method accurately predicted experimental PISA outcomes and morphology differences.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed in silico method is effective for discovering new monomers for PISA.
  • The method can predict the self-assembly behavior and resulting nanostructure morphologies.
  • This computational approach facilitates the rational design of monomers for advanced materials synthesis.