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| Title |
Nanoparticles of Well‐Defined 4‐Arm Stars made using Nanoreactors in Water
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| Published in |
Macromolecular Rapid Communications, November 2013
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| DOI | 10.1002/marc.201300665 |
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| Authors |
Khaled O Sebakhy, Mikhail Gavrilov, David Valade, Zhongfan Jia, Michael J Monteiro |
| Abstract |
In this work, the use of a nanoreactor is demonstrated to rapidly prepare monodisperse polymer nanoparticles in water-based dispersion consisting of 4-arm star polymer via the R-group RAFT approach. It is shown that by heating a nanoparticle assembler above its lower critical solution temperature (LCST), stabilized nanoparticles are formed that act as a template for the 4-arm star RAFT-mediated polymerization of styrene. Monodisperse nanoparticles of size (between 40 and 90 nm) containing monodisperse polymer of desired molecular weight (30-95 k) are obtained with little star-star coupling due to compartmentalization. The nanoreactor technique allows independent control over the size and molecular weight with a 4-arm star topology. |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 12 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 12 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 5 | 42% |
| Student > Master | 2 | 17% |
| Lecturer | 1 | 8% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 1 | 8% |
| Lecturer > Senior Lecturer | 1 | 8% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 2 | 17% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Chemistry | 7 | 58% |
| Chemical Engineering | 1 | 8% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 1 | 8% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 1 | 8% |
| Unknown | 2 | 17% |