聚合物-纳米金在油水界面的自组装及有序结构的构筑

聚合物-纳米金复合物既具有金纳米粒子的光、电及催化性能,又具有聚合物的可加工性及对外界的刺激响应性,因此已成为高分子科学及材料科学研究的热点。本文主要介绍了我们实验室在聚合物-纳米金在油水界面的自组装及有序结构的构筑研究方面的相关工作:(1)利用界面聚合的方法制备侧链接枝亲水性金纳米粒子的聚苯乙烯及杂化聚合物在水溶液中的自组装;(2)亲水性金纳米粒子及疏水性聚合物(或疏水性磁性纳米粒子)在油水界面的自组装研究;(3)利用金纳米粒子为交联点制备具有温度响应性聚合物微凝胶的研究。     

具有可见光响应聚合物纳米粒子的制备及性能研究

利用可见光响应供体-受体Stenhouse加合物(DASAs)设计并制备了2种表面含有可见光响应单元的聚合物纳米粒子,并对纳米粒子的光响应性进行了研究.首先合成了修饰DASA分子的聚合物PGMD,研究结果表明PGMD可溶于与水互溶的有机溶剂(如DMSO)中并具有良好的光响应性,PGMD链段可在可见光刺激下响应为亲水状态.因此,含有PGMD链段的嵌段共聚物PCL-b-PGMD可在水中自组装形成胶束,并能与PCL-b-PEG在水中共组装形成复合壳层胶束,但PGMD链段在水中无法可逆响应为疏水状态.为获得具有可逆响应性的聚合物纳米粒子,利用硅烷偶联剂水解修饰的方法得到表面含有疏水三烯状态DASA分子与亲水PEG短链的复合壳层二氧化硅纳米粒子,实验结果表明复合壳层二氧化硅纳米粒子在水环境中有良好的分散稳定性,并且表面修饰的DASA分子仍具有良好的响应性.本研究为设计表面性质可调的响应性聚合物纳米粒子提供了新的设计思路.     

壳层悬挂β-环糊精单元的两亲性超支化聚合物的分子包合与识别行为

采用紫外分光光度法研究了两种壳层悬挂β-环糊精单元的两亲性超支化聚合物在缓冲溶液(25 ℃, pH=11)中的分子包合与识别行为. 结果表明, 两种聚合物具有来自环糊精单元和两亲性超支化聚合物的双重包合能力, 可分别与水溶性染料分子酚酞(PP)、甲基橙(MO)、有机小分子对硝基苯酚(p-NP)等3种客体分子发生单客体包合效应, 而且其包合能力强于单一的环糊精或两亲性超支化聚合物; 通过客体分子PP和MO证实了这两种聚合物还具有双重识别能力, 可以与PP和MO发生双客体包合效应.     

核-壳型分子印迹聚合物的制备与应用

分子印迹聚合物是具有与模板分子形状、大小及官能团完全匹配的特异识别位点的高分子聚合物,能选择性识别、有效富集目标分析物(模板分子)并去除干扰物,已广泛应用于样品前处理、化学/生物传感、药物输送等领域.然而,在合成过程中,仍存在模板分子洗脱困难、有效识别位点少、结合容量低、传质速率慢等问题.核-壳型分子印迹聚合物即在核层颗粒表面进行分子印迹,即表面印迹,印迹位点仅存在于壳层结构中,利于模板分子洗脱及扩散,能够增加有效识别位点并提高印迹容量.依据核层材料的不同,本文详细介绍了以磁性材料及非磁性材料为核的核-壳型分子印迹聚合物的合成与应用,探讨了中空核-壳分子印迹聚合物的制备与发展,并对核-壳印迹聚合物的发展前景进行了展望.     

电化学沉积法制备金（核）-铜（壳）纳米粒子阵列

以组装在有机分子自组装膜/金基底电极上的Au纳米粒子阵列为电化学沉积模板,制备了金(核)-铜 (壳)纳米粒子阵列.选用巯基十一胺（AUDT）和巯基癸烷（DT）混合自组装膜作为基底电极与Au纳米粒子的耦联层,可以在一定的电位下实现金属Cu在Au纳米粒子上的选择性沉积.将沉积电位控制在－0.03 V（vs SCE）时,沉积初期（t ≤ 15 s,沉积粒子粒径 ≤ 20 nm ）金(核)-铜 (壳)粒子具有良好的单分散性和近似球形,而且粒径实验值同计算值非常吻合.     

Janus超支化超分子聚合物的构筑及电化学响应性自组装行为研究

本工作报道了第一例具有电化学氧化还原刺激响应性的Janus超支化超分子聚合物,研究了其自组装及响应性解组装的行为.通过阴离子开环聚合和阳离子开环聚合的方法,分别合成了以β-环糊精为中心的亲水超支化聚缩水甘油醚CD-g-HPG和末端为二茂铁的疏水超支化聚(3-乙基-3-羟甲基环氧丁烷)Fc-g-HBPO.两者通过Fc/CD之间的主客体包结络合作用,构筑了两亲性Janus超支化超分子聚合物HBPO-b-HPG.该聚合物在水中可以自组装形成囊泡.通过动态光散射(DLS)跟踪、2D-NOESY和循环伏安曲线表征了CD-g-HPG和Fc-g-HBPO之间的主客体包结络合作用,通过扫描电子显微镜(SEM)和透射电子显微镜(TEM)表征了囊泡结构.最后,研究了囊泡在电化学刺激下的解组装行为,同时也验证了囊泡在加热、加入主客体竞争分子和化学氧化下的稳定性.     

温度响应性单分子聚合物胶束

单分子聚合物胶束和传统的胶束一样具有核-壳结构,因其结构固定并具有良好的热力学稳定性而越来越受到研究者的关注。当这类胶束的核层或者壳层含有温敏性高分子的时候就可以形成具有温度响应性的单分子聚合物胶束。近年来,人们在温敏性的单分子聚合物胶束的合成与性能研究方面做了大量的工作。本文概述了具有温度响应行为的单分子聚合物胶束的类型、制备方法以及应用等方面取得的新进展,同时结合本实验室的工作,总结了基于超支化大分子的温敏性单分子聚合物胶束的相转变行为研究,并对这类胶束体系的发展进行了展望。     

超支化聚合物的合成和自组装研究

超支化聚合物作为树形聚合物的一种,具有独特的结构和性能,受到了科学界和工业界的广泛关注.本文简要总结了研究者们在超支化聚合物的合成、组装及应用方面的部分工作成果.主要包括以下3方面的内容:第一部分介绍了超支化聚合物的合成方法;第二部分介绍了超支化聚合物多维多尺度的自组装结构和组装机理,包括纳米球形胶束,纳米、微米级囊泡,大的复合囊泡,纳米纤维,纳米、微米及宏观管和多孔膜等;第三部分介绍了超支化聚合物在生物医药、细胞模拟及纳米粒子模拟制备等方面的应用.     

功能化修饰的超支化聚缩水甘油醚在药物载体领域的应用

随着纳米医学的发展,具有控制释放药物和生物活性分子、靶向刺激响应生理环境的聚合物纳米载体成为该领域活跃而具潜力的研究方向。超支化聚缩水甘油醚因其特定的三维结构、良好的亲水性、生物相容性和可修饰性而引起生物材料界的广泛关注。而经功能化修饰的超支化聚缩水甘油醚还可自组装成胶束、囊泡等药物载体或共价偶联成大分子前药。本文从超支化聚缩水甘油醚的疏水两亲修饰、环境敏感性功能化和超分子组装体改性三方面综述了功能化修饰的超支化聚缩水甘油醚在药物载体领域的研究进展。并系统归纳了超支化聚缩水甘油醚两亲功能化、环境敏感功能化的分子设计策略。另外,对基于环糊精主客体作用的超支化超分子聚缩水甘油醚共聚物的组装行为进行了简述。     

疏水高分子介导可动芯SiO2杂化纳米粒子的仿生合成

在疏水高分子胶体模板——含氟丙烯酸酯(FA)共聚物乳胶粒中引入能够介导SiO2原位沉积的聚胺催化活性点-甲基丙烯酰氧乙基三甲基氯化铵(DMC),以四甲氧基硅烷(TMOS)为硅源,在环境条件下可控合成了核壳型FA共聚物/SiO2杂化纳米粒子.高温煅烧除去聚合物核质,可得到中空的SiO2纳米粒子,结合FTIR、EDX、TGA以及XPS等表征数据印证了SiO2的沉积主要发生在聚合物模板的表面.进一步考察了反应条件,如聚胺功能单体DMC的浓度、TMOS的浓度以及反应时间对SiO2杂化纳米粒子的形貌与组成的影响.实验结果表明增加DMC或者TMOS的浓度,适当延长反应时间,均可增加SiO2粒子的沉积速率,导致SiO2壳层的厚度增加,并且杂化粒子的形貌由凹陷多褶皱的核壳结构向可动芯结构转变.由于FA共聚物模板的强疏水性,增加有机核层和无机壳层间的不相容排斥,最终导致核壳层间空腔的形成,得到含可动芯的核壳型SiO2杂化粒子.     

Synthesis of Stimuli-responsive Nanoparticles by Solution Polymerization

In this study, stimuli-responsive nanoparticles were prepared by solution polymerization. Two synthesis routes are proposed to synthesize the particles, the monomer route and the polymer/monomer route. For the monomer route, pH and thermal sensitive nanoparticles were synthesized from acrylic acid and N-isopropylacrylamide. For the polymer/monomer route, the pH sensitive nanoparticles were synthesized from chitosan and acrylic acid. The effect of reaction time, initiator concentration and agitation rate on the particle size and the size distribution were investigated. The stimuli-responsive nanoparticles could be directly blended with other polymers to prepare stimuli-responsive functional membranes.     

Smart polymer grafted silica based drug delivery systems

Smart polymers are a special class of polymers, which respond to the various external stimuli by changing their properties. Recent developments in synthetic polymer chemistry have provided the possibility of designing and synthesis of various new stimuli-responsive polymers. These stimuli-responsive polymers can be used to prepare smart drug delivery systems (DDS) by grafting them on various nanomaterials. The main aim of this review is to present collective information on various stimuli-responsive polymers grafted on silica nanoparticles for the preparation of smart DDS. The stimuli covered are pH, temperature, redox, reactive oxygen species (ROS), glucose concentration, enzymes, magnetic field, and so forth. The structures of various stimuli-responsive polymers are shown with their relevance to the preparation of smart DDS. The crucial roles of macromolecular design and synthesis of smart polymers in the development of stimuli-responsive DDS are discussed with examples from literature and the challenges that still exist in this area of research are presented.     

The accessibility of a unimolecular micelle's core to environmental ions: Exploration with a xanthene dye

To learn the impact of aqueous environmental species on the property of the isolated core of a water‐soluble unimolecular micelle (UIM), a guest dye of erythrosine B (EB) is used as a probe to map the dynamic microenvironment of the UIM. PEGylation of branched polyethylenimine (PEI) with oxirane‐functionalized polyethylene glycol (PEG) leads to a UIM of PEI@PEG, and the core is further chemically engineered. The resulting UIMs can irreversibly encapsulate EB exclusively by the core. It is found that the stacking of EB molecules is dependent on the electronic microenvironment of the UIMs, where a polar and ionic core favors a twist stacking of EB, but a less polar core results in an unprecedented parallel stacking of EB. Spectral analysis shows that EB is encapsulated along with its counter ion of Na+, and an exterior ion can cause dehydration of the UIMs but can hardly enter the UIMs; moreover, ion exchange through the PEG shell is actually allowed. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Polym. Sci., Part B: Polym. Phys. 2015 , 53, 566–573     

Cycloaddition Reactions and Dendritic Polymer Architectures – A Perfect Match

Summery: The potential of cycloaddition (CA) reactions for the synthesis of dendritic polymers is pointed out. The [4 + 2] Diels Alder cycloaddition as well as 1,3-dipolar CA reactions including “click chemistry” are addressed, and the advantages of these reactions like high selectivity, thus high tolerance towards additional functionalities, high yields and synthesis under mild reaction conditions are highlighted. New perfectly branched dendrimers as well as hyperbranched polymers have been prepared and modified using the 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reaction of azines with alkynes. The 1,3-dipolar CA reaction of bisazine with maleimides results in hyperbranched and thus, irregular and broadly distributed polymers though with a degree of branching of 100% due to special intermediate formation. The [4 + 2] Diels Alder cycloaddition was successfully applied for the synthesis of highly branched polyphenylene structures using the AB₂ + AB and the A₂ + B₃ approach. CA reactions are also very suitable for highly efficient polymer analogous reactions and thus, they can also be used to prepare complex polymer architectures like dendronized polymers.     

Synthesis of core-shell structured polymers with inserted thioether from a multi-functional scaffold

The synthesis of a thioether inserted, core-shell structured polymer from the scaffold of hyperbranched polyglycerol (PG) was described. PG was first allyl functionalized, and in the presence of AIBN, the allyl groups further underwent radical addition to thiol compounds, thus thiol functional polyethylene oxide monomether (MPEO) were grafted onto PG. Similarly, 2-mercaptoethy-lammonium chloride was introduced onto PG via thiol addition, and the residual amino groups were further quaternized with decyl bromide, leading to an amphiphilic core-shell structure polymer.     

Triazatruxene-containing hyperbranched polymers: Microwave-assisted synthesis and optoelectronic properties

Hyperbranched polymer structures represent a class of high-functionality building blocks with excellent three-dimensional topology for the construction of highly substituted conjugated polymers. In this contribution, an efficient microwave synthesis protocol toward the synthesis of conjugated hyperbranched polymers is presented. A novel series of soluble hyperbranched polyfluorenes (PTF1-PTF3) incorporating triazatruxene moiety as the branch units with various branching degrees have thus been successfully constructed with good yields and high molecular weight via a facile “A2+B2+C3” approach. The structures of the hyperbranched polymers were confirmed by NMR and GPC. Their thermal, optical, and electrochemical properties of the hyperbranched polymers were also investigated. The results showed that introduction of triazatruxene units into the hyperbranched structure endowed the polymer with good thermal stability and highly amorphous properties. Photophysical investigation of PTFx revealed strong blue emission in both solution and solid states. Hyperbranched polymers with higher degree of branching and proper content of linear fluorene units exhibited better photophysical properties in terms of narrow emission spectra and relatively high quantum efficiency as well as improved thermal spectral stability. The triazatruxene branching unit also played a role in raising the HOMO energy levels relative to those of polyfluorenes that would help to improve the charge injection and transport properties. The incorporation of triazatruxene unit into hyperbranched polymers has thus explored an effective avenue for constructing optoelectronic polymers with improved functional characteristics.     

Self-assembled ordered polymer nanocomposites directed by attractive particles

We theoretically investigate general conditions under which an inorganic phase can direct the self-assembly of an ordered polymer nanocomposite. For this purpose, we consider a solution of triblock copolymers forming a hexagonal phase of micelles and investigate the effect of adding attractive particles. We show that if the triblock is functionalized at its ends by attaching groups with specific affinity for the particles, thus effectively becoming a pentablock, the particles direct the self-assembly of the system into phases where both the polymers and the particles exhibit mesoscopic order. Different lamellar and gyroid phases (both with Ia3d and I4(1)32 space symmetries) are presented in detail. Our results show that functionalization is a very powerful route for directing self-assembly of polymer nanocomposites. We briefly discuss the connections with recent theoretical and experimental results in diblock melts with nanoparticles as well as for problems where polymers are used to template the growth of an inorganic phase in solution.     

Hyperbranched Azopolymer with Quadruple Responsibility

Simply constructing multiple responsive polymers with obvious shape and dimension variations on their assemblies upon different stimuli is still rarely reported. In this study, we report a hyperbranched polymer named HPAzoBAHB-star-PEG9 with quadruple-response to light,temperature, pH and oxidation stimuli. The polymer contains azobenzene chromophore, sulfide, amide and amine groups in its hydrophobic hyperbranched core, and the core is capped with hydrophilic polyethylene glycol(PEG9) arms. HPA...     

由苯-1，2，4-三羧酸-1，2—酐和羟乙基哌嗪合成酰胺键、叔氨和酯键交替排列的水溶性超支化聚合物

基于官能团非等活性原理，由商品化多组分单体一步法合成了超支化聚合物． 用苯—1，2，4-三羧酸—1，2酐(BTAA)与羟乙基哌嗪(HEPZ)为原料，利用氨基和羟 基反应活性不同，制备了结构非对称超支化聚酰胺—酯．分别用红外、核磁共振确 定了所得聚合物的结构．该聚合物分子骨架中含有交替排列的酰胺键、叔氨和酯键 ，易溶于水．本合成方法原料易得、工艺简单，适合大量制备超支化聚合物．     

A personal journey on using polymerization in aqueous dispersed media to synthesize polymers with branched structures

Several projects were discussed to demonstrate the intriguing power of radical polymerization in aqueous dispersed media to regulate the branched structures in functional polymeric nanomaterials.