Pluronic三嵌段共聚物在油水界面上自组装行为的介观模拟研究

利用耗散粒子动力学(DPD)模拟方法研究了三种不同结构的Pluronic嵌段共聚物F127,F68和L64在油水界面处的自组装行为.结果发现,嵌段共聚物的分子量、PO/EO比例以及油水体积比等因素对PEO-PPO-PEO类三嵌段共聚物的界面构型、界面张力和界面厚度等均具有一定的影响;PO/EO比值愈大且分子量较大者,体系界面张力越低,界面厚度越大;嵌段共聚物的PO/EO的比值接近时,分子量较小者界面张力较低,界面厚度较小.F68分子中的PO嵌段含量低于F127,但因其分子量小,故其PO嵌段在界面处排列更紧密有序,界面张力更低.同时,研究发现油水比例的增加会使油/水/嵌段共聚物体系的构型由水包油型乳状液向油包水型乳状液逐渐转变;油水比例对嵌段共聚物聚集行为的影响与其分子量的大小有关:分子量较大者,油水比对其界面性能影响较大,分子量较小者则影响不大.     

以Pluronics~为第二组分制备聚乳酸蜂窝状规整多孔薄膜

以聚乳酸(PLA)为成膜材料,以两亲三嵌段共聚物PEO-PPO-PEO(Pluronics)为第二组分,利用水辅助法成功地制备了聚乳酸蜂窝状多孔膜.研究了环境湿度、溶液浓度和所用PLA分子量对多孔膜结构的影响.结果表明,加入第二组分PEO-PPO-PEO能有效地促进规整蜂窝结构的形成.蛋白质吸附实验结果进一步证明了PEO-PPO-PEO组分在孔洞内壁的富集,由此构建了阻抗蛋白质吸附的图案化功能结构表面.     

不同嵌段比的PEG-b-PDMAEMA共聚物在水溶液中的自聚集行为

采用氢核磁共振(¹H-NMR)、动态光散射(DLS)及透射电子显微镜(TEM)对聚乙二醇-嵌段-聚甲基丙烯酸N,N-二甲氨基乙酯(PEG-b-PDMAEMA)三种具有不同PEG/PDMAEMA嵌段比的PEG-b-PDMAEMA共聚物在水溶液中的自聚集行为进行了研究. 研究表明, 两嵌段比例是影响聚合物胶束化过程的关键因素: 只有当其中聚乙二醇含量较低(质量分数低于33%)时, 聚合物才具有其pH/温度敏感胶束化特性. 此外, 共聚物溶液随温度胶束化过程与共聚物嵌段比大小密切相关. PEG-b-PDMAEMA这种不同于传统双亲性嵌段共聚物(DHBCs)在选择性溶剂中独特的胶束化行为, 是由聚合物溶液体系中各种基团之间的氢键作用决定的.     

以Pluronics为第二组分制备聚乳酸蜂窝状规整多孔薄膜

以聚乳酸（PLA）为成膜材料,以两亲三嵌段共聚物PEO-PPO-PEO（Pluronics）为第二组分,利用水辅助法成功地制备了聚乳酸蜂窝状多孔膜.研究了环境湿度、溶液浓度和所用PLA分子量对多孔膜结构的影响.结果表明,加入第二组分PEO-PPO-PEO能有效地促进规整蜂窝结构的形成.蛋白质吸附实验结果进一步证明了PEO-PPO-PEO组分在孔洞内壁的富集,由此构建了阻抗蛋白质吸附的图案化功能结构表面.     

以Pluronics(R)为第二组分制备聚乳酸蜂窝状规整多孔薄膜

以聚乳酸(PLA)为成膜材料, 以两亲三嵌段共聚物PEO-PPO-PEO(Pluronics(R))为第二组分, 利用水辅助法成功地制备了聚乳酸蜂窝状多孔膜. 研究了环境湿度、溶液浓度和所用PLA分子量对多孔膜结构的影响. 结果表明, 加入第二组分PEO-PPO-PEO能有效地促进规整蜂窝结构的形成. 蛋白质吸附实验结果进一步证明了PEO-PPO-PEO组分在孔洞内壁的富集, 由此构建了阻抗蛋白质吸附的图案化功能结构表面.     

磷酰胆碱基pH敏感性ABA型嵌段共聚物的合成与胶束化

采用氯化亚铜/2,2-联二吡啶催化体系, 2,5-二溴己二酸二乙酯为引发剂, 甲醇为溶剂运用希莱克技术, 利用原子转移自由基聚合(ATRP)方法合成了ABA型三嵌段共聚物PDEAEMA-b-PMPC-b-PDEAEMA. ¹H NMR和GPC(凝胶渗透色谱)对聚合物组成、结构及分子量进行了表征, 利用透光率、粘度测定研究了嵌段共聚物溶液的pH敏感性, 利用表面张力测定、荧光探针和透射电镜研究了嵌段共聚物胶束化作用, 确定了共聚物水溶液的临界胶束浓度(CMC). 结果表明所合成的ABA型三嵌段共聚物水溶液具有pH敏感性, 其临界相变pH 7～7.5. 调节溶液pH值可实现嵌段共聚物胶束化形成“花状”胶束, 并测定了其临界胶束浓度.     

ABA三嵌段离子型共聚物的合成及溶液自组装

以对二溴苄作引发剂,引发苯乙烯和甲基丙烯酸对硝基苯酚酯(NPMA)相继进行原子转移自由基聚合(ATRP),合成了3个三嵌段聚合物PNPMA-b-PS-b-PNPMA,其中聚苯乙烯段含有146个单元,PNPMA段的结构单元数分别为8、20和36.对这3个三嵌段共聚物分别进行水解反应及与2-氨基吡啶的取代反应,得到了具有相反电荷的PMAA-b-PS-b-PMAA和PNPMAAm-b-PS-b-PNPMAAm两种6个三嵌段共聚物.用核磁、红外和GPC表征了聚合物的结构、分子量及分子量分布等.将这两种三嵌段共聚物以等摩尔混合,在水中可自组装成碗形聚集体结构,讨论了可能的形成机理.     

两亲性含糖三嵌段共聚物的合成与自组装研究

以二(2-溴异丁酸)4,4′-联苯酯(BiBBP)为引发剂,采用顺序加料的方法,用原子转移自由基聚合法(ATRP)合成了一系列窄分子量分布的甲基丙烯酸甲酯(MMA)和6-O-甲基丙烯酰基-1,2;3,4-双-O-亚异丙基-α-D-吡喃半乳糖苷(MAIPGal)的三嵌段共聚物.用GPC和1H-NMR表征了聚合物的相对分子量和链段组成.结果表明,通过改变投料顺序可以合成ABA和BAB型2种三嵌段共聚物,改变投料比和控制单体的转化率可以调控聚合物的链段组成.聚合物脱保护后得到两亲性含糖共聚物.用TEM考察了聚合物在水溶液中的自组装行为,表明具有不同链段组成的共聚物可以形成不同形态的聚集体,含糖段组成高的聚合物易于形成大尺寸的胶团,含糖段组成低的聚合物易于形成结构清晰的囊泡、胶束,其中,含糖段在两边的BAB型共聚物易于形成囊泡,含糖段在中央的ABA型共聚物易于形成胶束.     

单一分子量含氟嵌段共聚物的本体及薄膜自组装研究

嵌段共聚物导向自组装作为一种自下而上的图案化工艺,受到工业界和学术界的广泛关注.然而,导向自组装中缺陷率与分子参数之间的关系研究尚不清晰.本文工作基于模块化合成策略,利用迭代指数增长法并结合巯基-双键的点击反应成功制备了高χ低N的单一分子量含氟聚酯嵌段共聚物(oLA_n-FPOSS).单一分子量特征可以排除多分散性对自组装行为的影响.本体自组装研究表明聚酯嵌段和含氟嵌段具有强相分离驱动力,可以形成特征尺寸小于10 nm的六方柱状相结构(HEX).在薄膜自组装中,嵌段共聚物经过简单的热退火可以在硅片表面形成平行基底排布的柱状纳米图案.此外,通过对比研究不同链长单一分子量嵌段共聚物的薄膜组装行为,发现随着嵌段共聚物链长的增长薄膜组装图形缺陷率明显下降,初步揭示了薄膜自组装过程中缺陷形成对嵌段共聚物链长的依赖性.     

温度/pH敏感性嵌段共聚物P(HEMA-co-DEAEMA)-b-PDEAM-b-P(DEAEMA-co-HEMA)的合成与性质研究

利用原子转移自由基聚合方法(ATRP)合成了组成递变的嵌段共聚物P(HEMA-co-DEAEMA)-b-PDEAM-b- P(DEAEMA-co-HEMA). 用FTIR, ¹H NMR和GPC技术表征了聚合物的组成、结构、分子量及其分布. 通过透光率测定、粘度、激光粒度分析和透射电镜研究了共聚物组成、温度及溶液pH对其溶液相行为和胶束化作用的影响. 结果表明: 所合成的嵌段共聚物具有温度和pH敏感性, 共聚物水溶液的低临界溶解温度(LCST)随HEMA量的增加而降低, 临界相变pH随HEMA量的增加而降低, 温度和pH诱导均可实现嵌段共聚物的胶束化. 控制HEMA量可以调控嵌段共聚物的LCST和pK_a.     

PEO-PPO-PEO在生物医用材料方面的研究进展

聚氧乙烯-聚氧丙烯-聚氧乙烯三嵌段共聚物因其具有良好的生物相容性和蛋白抗性,近年来在生物医用材料中的应用越来越广泛.聚氧乙烯-聚氧丙烯-聚氧乙烯水溶液具有温度敏感的胶束化和热可逆凝胶化特点,被认为是一种具有许多优点的药物传输载体,药物与胶束的核心结合增加了药物的溶解性、代谢稳定性和体内循环时间.本文对聚氧乙烯-聚氧丙烯-聚氧乙烯在生物医用方面的研究进展进行了综述,并重点介绍了其在药物传输载体,组织工程等方面的研究进展.     

Characterization and demulsification of poly(ethylene oxide)-block-poly(propylene oxide)-block-poly(ethylene oxide) copolymers

Four poly(ethylene oxide)-block-poly(propylene oxide)-block-poly(ethylene oxide) copolymers with different molecular weights and PPO/PEO composition ratios were synthesized. The characterization of the PEO-PPO-PEO triblock copolymers was studied by surface tension measurement, UV-vis spectra, and surface pressure method. These results clearly showed that the CMC of PEO-PPO-PEO was not a certain value but a concentration range, in contrast to classical surfactant, and two breaks around CMC were reflected in both surface tension isotherm curves and UV-vis absorption spectra. The range of CMC became wider with increasing PPO/PEO composition ratio. Surface pressure Pi-A curves revealed that the amphiphilic triblock copolymer PEO-PPO-PEO molecule was flexible at the air/water interface. We found that the minimum area per molecule at the air/water interface increased with the proportion of PEO chains. The copolymers with the same mass fractions of PEO had similar slopes in the isotherm of the Pi-A curve. From the demulsification experiments a conclusion had been drawn that the dehydration speed increased with decreased content of PEO, but the final dehydration rate of four demulsifiers was approximate. We determined that the coalescence of water drops resulted in the breaking of crude oil emulsions from the micrograph.     

Interaction of urea with pluronic block copolymers by 1H NMR spectroscopy

Solution 1H NMR techniques were used to characterize the interaction of urea with poly(ethylene oxide)-poly(propylene oxide)-poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO-PPO-PEO) triblock copolymers. The urea was established to interact selectively with the PEO blocks of the block copolymer, and the interaction sites were found not to change with increasing temperature. Such interactions influence the self-assembly properties of the block copolymer in solution by increasing the hydration of the block copolymers and stabilizing the gauche conformation of the PPO chain. Therefore, urea increases the critical micellization temperature (CMT) values of PEO-PPO-PEO copolymers, and the effect of urea on the CMT is more pronounced for copolymers with higher PEO contents and lower for those with increased contents of PPO segments.     

Diverse effect of PEO-PPO-PEO and PPO-PEO-PPO triblock copolymers on temperature responsive behavior of luminescent hard-soft colloids

The present work introduces the interaction of hard and soft colloids in aqueous solutions at various temperatures and concentrations, as well as at critical conditions of temperature induced phase separation. Hard and soft colloids are represented by luminescent silica nanoparticles and aggregates of PEO-PPO-PEO and PPO-PEO-PPO triblock copolymers correspondingly. The formation of the mixed aggregates between hard and soft colloids in equilibrium conditions has been revealed by dynamic light scattering measurements. The distribution of silica nanoparticles between aqueous and surfactant rich phases after phase separation highlights the effect of pH, architecture and concentration of triblock copolymers on the mixed hard-soft colloids aggregation at cloud point conditions. The peculiar aggregation and phase behavior of PPO-PEO-PPO pluronics should be assumed as the main reason of the enhanced mixed aggregation with SNs at increased temperatures and concentrated conditions.     

Nucleation and crystallization of PS-b-PEO-b-PCL triblock copolymers

We have recently prepared a series of Polystyrene-b-Poly(ethylene oxide)-b-Polycaprolactone (PS-b-PEO-b-PCL or SEOCL) triblock copolymers of varying compositions and molecular weights. These ABC triblock copolymers present the peculiarity that two of the three blocks are able to crystallize upon cooling from an already phase segregated melt. When either of the crystallizable blocks or both are a minor phase, a fractionated crystallization process develops. The confinement of crystallizable blocks in the nanoscopic scale enables the clear observation in some cases of exclusive crystallization from homogeneous nuclei of two components within the triblock copolymer. The homogeneous nature of the nucleation was deduced since the supercooling attained is the maximum possible before vitrification of the material takes place. The self-nucleation domains were also found to depend on the composition and molecular weight of the copolymers. The block copolymers exhibited a marked decrease in crystalline memory and when the crystallizable blocks constitute minor phases, the self-nucleation domain disappears. The reason behind this behavior is that only at lower self-nucleation temperatures the density of self-nuclei becomes high enough to include at least one crystal fragment per confined microdomain in view of their vast numbers (e.g., 10¹⁶/cm³).     

嵌段序列对线型ABC三嵌段高分子微相分离动力学的影响

用动态密度泛函理论研究了嵌段序列对线型ABC三嵌段高分子微相分离动力学机理的影响. 针对一个典型的线型ABC三嵌段高分子, 通过系统地改变各嵌段的体积分数, 我们给出了嵌段序列为ABC 和BAC时, 关于微相分离机理的三元相图. 发现除各嵌段的平均组分、相互作用能外, 嵌段序列也影响其微相分离的机理和最终的相结构. 此外, 嵌段序列的变化还导致了三元相图对称性的破缺.     

生物相容性BAB型两亲嵌段共聚物的合成及其自组装

Lys(z)-NCA was synthesized in the presence of triphosgene, amphiphilic triblock copolymers poly(N^c-CBZ-Lysine)-PEG-poly(N^c-CBZ-Lysine) were synthesized in DMF using amino-end ended PEG as initiator with the mechanism of anion ring opening polymerization. The structures of block copolymers were characterized by IR, ^1H-NMR,GPC and DSC. The results showed triblock copolymers with expected structure and low polydispersity in molecular weight could be synthesized by this method. At the same time, the self-assembling behaviors of block copolymer were investigated by TEM. A novel helical aggregates were found to be formed in DMF. Because of biocompatibility of two components of block copolymers, these block copolymers have potential applications in the field of biomaterials.     

Reversible thermo-responsive luminescent metallo-supramolecular triblock copolymers based on platinum(II) terpyridyl chromophores with unusual aggregation behaviour and red-near-infrared (NIR) emission upon heating

Two platinum(II) terpyridyl-based metallo-supramolecular triblock copolymers, [ClPt(tpy)PEO-PPO-PEO(tpy)PtCl](OTf)(2) (1) and [(Ph-C≡C)Pt(tpy)PEO-PPO-PEO(tpy)Pt(C≡C-Ph)](OTf)(2) (2), have been synthesized and characterized. The two complexes were found to aggregate with PtPt and/or π-π interactions at high temperature, which have not been reported so far, as revealed by UV/Vis absorption, emission and (1)H NMR study. This is due to the formation of spherical micelles driven by the PEO-PPO-PEO copolymers at temperatures above the critical micelle temperature, which was confirmed by TEM and DLS. The red-near-infrared (NIR) emission of the complexes can be switched on and off by at least ten cycles of heating and cooling, suggesting that the micellization was highly reversible.     

Unexpected consequences of block polydispersity on the self-assembly of ABA triblock copolymers

Controlled/"living" polymerizations and tandem polymerization methodologies offer enticing opportunities to enchain a wide variety of monomers into new, functional block copolymer materials with unusual physical properties. However, the use of these synthetic methods often introduces nontrivial molecular weight polydispersities, a type of chain length heterogeneity, into one or more of the copolymer blocks. While the self-assembly behavior of monodisperse AB diblock and ABA triblock copolymers is both experimentally and theoretically well understood, the effects of broadening the copolymer molecular weight distribution on block copolymer phase behavior are less well-explored. We report the melt-phase self-assembly behavior of SBS triblock copolymers (S = poly(styrene) and B = poly(1,4-butadiene)) comprised of a broad polydispersity B block (M(w)/M(n) = 1.73-2.00) flanked by relatively narrow dispersity S blocks (M(w)/M(n) = 1.09-1.36), in order to identify the effects of chain length heterogeneity on block copolymer self-assembly. Based on synchrotron small-angle X-ray scattering and transmission electron microscopy analyses of seventeen SBS triblock copolymers with poly(1,4-butadiene) volume fractions 0.27 ≤ f(B) ≤ 0.82, we demonstrate that polydisperse SBS triblock copolymers self-assemble into periodic structures with unexpectedly enhanced stabilities that greatly exceed those of equivalent monodisperse copolymers. The unprecedented stabilities of these polydisperse microphase separated melts are discussed in the context of a complete morphology diagram for this system, which demonstrates that narrow dispersity copolymers are not required for periodic nanoscale assembly.     

Glass transition temperature of low molecular weight styrene–isoprene block copolymers

Different series of poly(styrene–isoprene) diblock and poly(styrene–isoprene–styrene) triblock copolymers were prepared. In each series, the low molecular weight polystyrene block was kept constant, and the molecular weight of the polyisoprene block varied. The glass transition behavior of these polymers was studied and their glass transition temperatures compared with those of the random copolymers of styrene and isoprene. It is concluded that some low molecular weight styrene-isoprene block copolymers form a single phase. Krause's thermodynamic treatment of phase separation in block copolymers was applied to the data. One arrives at a polystyrene–polyisoprene interaction parameter χ1,2 ≈ 0.1. The experimental and theoretical limitations of this result are discussed.