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Photolabile Well-Defined Polystyrene Grafted on Silica Nanoparticle via Nitroxide-Mediated Polymerization (NMP)
Hien The Ho1,2, Trang N T Phan1, Marine Bonnevide3
1Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, Institut de Chimie Radicalaire, Avenue Escadrille Normandie Niemen, Marseille, France.
Abstract:
Herein, the synthesis of a novel nitroxide-mediated polymerization (NMP) initiator bearing a photolabile ortho-nitrobenzyl (oNB) group allowing surface-initiated NMP preparation of well-defined photoresponsive polystyrene grafted on silica nanoparticles is described. The photocleavable and photoresponsive properties of the prepared materials are demonstrated using small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) characterization.

