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Shenjie Qiu1, Jianqin Zhuang2, Shi Jin1
1Department of Chemistry and The Center for Engineered Polymeric Materials, College of Staten Island of the City University of New York, Staten Island, NY 10314, USA. nanloh.yang-cepm@csi.cuny.edu and PhD Program in Chemistry, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, New York, NY 10016, USA.
Abstract:
Nitrocatecholic random copolymers were obtained from nitration of protected catechol-N-isopropylacrylamide copolymers. Incorporation of 5% nitrocatecholic counits can lead to remarkable enhancement of the binding affinity toward Fe3O4 nanoparticles and an organic boronic acid by a factor of 40 and 20, respectively.
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