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Amphiphilic graft copolymers: Effect of graft chain length and content on colloid gel

  • Nitta, Kyohei (Department of Life and Functional Material Science, Graduate School of Natural Science, Konan University) ;
  • Kimoto, Atsushi (Department of Chemistry of Functional Molecules, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Konan University) ;
  • Watanabe, Junji (Department of Chemistry of Functional Molecules, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Konan University) ;
  • Ikeda, Yoshiyuki (Department of Chemistry of Functional Molecules, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Konan University)
  • Received : 2015.04.24
  • Accepted : 2015.06.09
  • Published : 2015.06.25
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Abstract

A series of amphiphilic graft copolymers were synthesized by varying the number of graft chains and graft chain lengths. The polarity of the hydrophobic graft chain on the copolymers was varied their solution properties. The glass transition temperature of the copolymers was in the low-temperature region, because of the amorphous nature of poly (trimethylene carbonate) (PTMC). The surface morphology of the lyophilized colloid gel had a bundle structure, which was derived from the combination of poly(N-hydroxyethylacrylamide)( poly(HEAA)) and PTMC. The solution properties were evaluated using dynamic light scattering and fluorescence measurements. The particle size of the graft copolymers was about 30-300 nm. The graft copolymers with a higher number of repeating units attributed to the TMC (trimethylene carbonate) component and with a lower macromonomer ratio showed high thermal stability. The critical association concentration was estimated to be between $2.2{\times}10^{-3}$ and $8.9{\times}10^{-2}mg/mL$, using the pyrene-based fluorescence probe technique. These results showed that the hydrophobic chain of the graft copolymer having a long PTMC segment had a low polarity, dependent on the number of repeating units of TMC and the macromonomer composition ratio. These results demonstrated that a higher number of repeating units of TMC, with a lower macromonomer composition, was preferable for molecular encapsulation.

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