Fluorine-Containing Triblock Copolymer Vesicles with Microphase-Separated Structure
作者:
Liu, Y (Liu, Yuan) [1] ; Yao, ZK (Yao, Zhekan) [1] ; Mei, ZY (Mei, Zeyu) [1] ; Wei, HX (Wei, Haixia) [1] ; Yuan, B (Yuan, Bing) [1] ; Zhang, WQ (Zhang, Wangqing) [1] , [2]
DOI
10.1021/acs.langmuir.2c03114
在线发表
FEB 2023
已索引
2023-02-27
文献类型
Article;
Early Access
摘要
Introduction of a fluorine-containing block into block copolymers is an effective method to tune block copolymer nanoassemblies with a microphase-separated structure. However, this microphase-separated structure is difficult to clearly observe due to its nanoscale size. In this work, fluorine-containing ABC triblock copolymer vesicles of poly(ethylene glycol)-block-poly-styrene-block-poly(4-vinylbenzyl pentafluorophenyl ether) (PEG-b-PS-b-PVBFP) are synthesized by reversible addition-fragmenta-tion chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization under dispersed condition. Owing to the choice of a suitable degree of polymerization of the three blocks, the synthesized PEG45-b-PS197-b-PVBFP233 vesicles have a relatively large size of around 216 nm and a thin vesicular membrane with a thickness of around 28 nm. Ascribed to the relatively large size of the vesicles and the thin vesicular membrane, it is concluded that the fluorine-containing PVBFP block forms 9 nm columnar microdomains shielded by the PS phase in the vesicular membrane.