多重氢键超分子聚合物

超分子聚合物是通过单体单元间的可逆非共价作用(包括氢键、π-π相互作用和金属配位作用等)形成的,由于非共价键的方向性和强度,这类聚合物显示了许多有趣的功能,例如刺激响应性和纳米结构自组装.本文总结了近三年来多重氢键超分子聚合物在改善聚合物性能、形成复杂分子构造、自组装纳米结构等方面的作用,并对超分子聚合物的应用进行了展...     

从超分子聚合物到超分子有机框架:组装溶液相超分子结构的周期性

单体分子在溶液相自发形成周期性的网络结构,是超分子化学和分子自组装研究领域的重大挑战.多头基分子在溶液相通过分子间非共价键作用可以形成超分子聚合物.提高多头基(三头基和四头基)分子骨架的刚性,可以提高结合位点的结构预组织,进而增强分子间相互作用的协同性和多价性特征,提高自组装结构的有序性或周期性.本文综述了多头基分子自组装形成超分子聚合物的一些重要进展,介绍了二维超分子有机框架(一类新的溶液相周期性自组装网络结构研究的最新进展.     

ABC型嵌段共聚物自组装理论研究进展

嵌段共聚物的自组装为功能性纳米材料的制备提供了一种重要途径. ABC型嵌段共聚物相比于AB型具有更大的参数空间,自组装行为也更加复杂.在实验所合成的三组分嵌段共聚物自组装体系中,已有多种复杂结构被发现,如螺旋超柱、编织图案等,但实验上比较难以直接阐明它们的形成机理.近年来,本课题组运用自洽场理论(SCFT)对ABC型嵌段共聚物自组装进行了系统的研究,聚焦探索其结构参数及拓扑结构对相行为的影响机制.本文介绍了本课题组关于“非受挫”和“受挫”两大类ABC型嵌段共聚物自组装的SCFT研究成果,揭示了一些非经典相的形成机理,并通过合理的分子设计预测了一系列新颖的有序结构.     

基于非共价键作用的二嵌段共聚物/均聚物超分子体系的自组装行为

采用实空间求解的自洽场理论,研究了两亲性二嵌段共聚物(AB)/均聚物(C)超分子体系在溶液中的自组装行为,其中B疏水嵌段的自由末端与C均聚物的一个末端形成可逆的非共价键.在稀溶液中,AB/C超分子聚合物体系通过自组装形成了一系列不同形貌的胶束,如核-壳-冠的三层胶束和蠕虫状胶束等.研究发现,胶束形貌受到非共价键强度和初...     

基于非共价镊合作用的线形超分子聚合物

基于"镊合导向自组装"策略构筑超分子聚合物,可实现电子给受体基元在组装体层次的精确排列,设计并制备了基于三联吡啶铂(Ⅱ)炔分子镊子主体的AA型单体分子,以及基于芘客体的BB型单体分子.通过在芘客体上引入酰胺基元,在非共价镊合过程中可产生分子间NH―N氢键作用.通过氢键和供受体相互作用力的高效协同,显著提高了非共价镊合体系的结合强度,其结合常数可达到(3.58±0.01)×105(mol/L)?1,相比于未取代芘客体,其结合强度呈现出2个数量级的显著提高.在此基础之上,对AA、BB型单体分子的超分子聚合行为展开了深入的研究.结合实验及理论计算,证实在高浓度状态下,两单体分子通过自组装可获得具有高分子量特征的线形超分子聚合物.同时,考察了超分子聚合物的动态可逆性,通过温度的改变及链终止剂的加入,可实现超分子聚合物的可逆自/解组装过程.     

基于“分子胶”的新型两亲性嵌段共聚物β-CD-PLA的合成及其胶束化

以二重氢键为引导,二硫键连接疏水性聚乳酸(PLA)和亲水性β-环糊精(β-CD)合成了嵌段共聚物β-CD-PLA。采用1 H-NMR和GPC对嵌段共聚物β-CD-PLA的结构进行了表征,以芘作为荧光分子探针对嵌段共聚物β-CD-PLA自组装胶束的性质进行了表征,采用动态光散射纳米粒度仪(DLS)对自组装胶束的粒径进行了测试。结果表明:在二重氢键的引导作用力和碘的氧化作用下,中间体脱去保护基形成双二硫键,形成目标嵌段共聚物β-CD-PLA,该嵌段共聚物能够在水中自组装形成纳米胶束,临界胶束浓度(CMC)为0.089mg/mL,在稀溶液中具有良好的稳定性,自组装形成空白胶束的粒径为31nm,阿霉素盐酸盐(DOX)载药胶束的粒径为42nm。     

嵌段共聚物自组装及其在纳米材料制备中的应用(上)

嵌段共聚物分子链中，嵌段间的相互热力学不相容性及化学键相连接性，使体系发生自组装，通过适当的分子及体系设计，嵌段共聚物体系能够自组装形成丰富的周期性有序微结构。本文概要地总结了嵌段共聚物体系主要的三方面自组装物理行为：本体自组装、在选择性溶剂中的缔合，及薄膜自组装，同时，介绍了这三方面的一些新的研究进展。     

嵌段质量分数对手性超分子螺旋结构自组装的影响

首先,以溴代聚乙二醇单甲醚(PEO-Br)为引发剂、甲基丙烯酸丁酯(BMA)为单体,通过原子转移自由基聚合(ATRP)制备了一系列具有不同聚乙二醇(PEO)质量分数的聚甲基丙烯酸丁酯-b-聚乙二醇嵌段共聚物(PBMA-b-PEO)。在此基础上,将手性酒石酸(TA)以氢键的方式选择性掺入到嵌段共聚物的PEO相中,诱导嵌段共聚物自组装制备具有手性螺旋结构的复合薄膜PBMA-b-PEO/TA。利用小角X射线散射(SAXS)、透射电子显微镜(TEM)和圆二色光谱(CD)对嵌段共聚物复合薄膜进行表征,研究了嵌段质量分数对手性诱导嵌段共聚物螺旋结构自组装的影响。结果表明:掺入TA与嵌段共聚物质量比为0.12、0.15的TA,当PEO质量分数为0.17～0.24时,有利于嵌段共聚物相分离形成柱状螺旋结构;当PEO质量分数增加至0.26时,嵌段共聚物自组装则形成层状结构,在分子间氢键作用下虽然发生手性转移,但无法得到螺旋结构。     

杂臂星型嵌段共聚物在溶液中自组装形成囊泡结构的计算机模拟

利用耗散粒子动力学模拟方法, 研究了杂臂星型嵌段共聚物A_m(B_n)₂在溶液中自组装形成囊泡的行为. 主要分析了自组装过程、亲水分枝和疏水分枝的长度及分子构型对组装结构的影响. 结果表明, 杂臂星型聚合物在溶液中会自组装形成碟状胶束, 之后弯曲闭合形成囊泡. 当亲水部分的分枝较短时, 易于形成囊泡结构; 在可形成囊泡结构的条件下, 双分子层囊泡膜的厚度随分枝长度的增加而增加. 与构成相近的线型嵌段共聚物相比, 杂臂星型嵌段共聚物更易形成囊泡结构, 且形成的囊泡结构较薄.     

聚苯乙烯-b-聚氧乙烯-b-聚苯乙烯三嵌段共聚物的自组装

小分子表面活性剂、磷脂、接枝及嵌段共聚物等两亲分子在选择性介质中能够自组装形成特定的分子聚集体 [1,2 ] .嵌段共聚物自组装的某些行为具有生物膜模拟性 ,如最近发现的嵌段共聚物自组装囊泡 [3～ 5] .诸多因素影响着嵌段共聚物在稀溶液中的自组装行为 [6] .对于 ABA型三嵌     

Understanding self-assembly of rod-coil copolymer in nanoslits

Rod-coil diblock copolymers are a special kind of molecule containing a rigid rod and a flexible part. We present a systematic study on self-assembly of the rod-coil copolymers in nanoslits using a hybrid density functional theory. The self-assembly of the rod-coil molecule is driven by the bulk concentration, and there exists a critical bulk concentration beyond which the rod-coil molecule self-assembled into ordered lamellar structures in the slit, otherwise it is in a disordered state. By monitoring the effect of the interaction (epsilon(TT)(*)) of molecular tail on the self-assembly, we found that in the nanoslit of H=13sigma, it is at epsilon(TT)(*)=8 rather than epsilon(TT)(*)=10 or epsilon(TT)(*)=12 that the minimal critical bulk concentration occurs. It may be because the strong tail-tail interaction leads to aggregation of the copolymer molecules in bulk phase, and the resulting supramolecular structures are fairly difficult to enter the slit due to the depletion effect. At a fixed slit, the structural evolution of the self-assembled film with the bulk concentration is observed, including trilayer and five-layer lamellar structures, smectic-A, smectic-C, and a mixture of smectic-A and smectic-C liquid crystal phases and so on. We found that the critical bulk concentration, corresponding to the disordered-ordered phase transition, greatly depends on the separation between two walls, and it changes periodically with the increase of the slit width. In addition, it is also found that the molecular flexibility is one of key factors determining the self-assembled structure in the slit, and the critical bulk density increases with the molecular flexibility.     

Self-assembly of rod-coil block copolymers

We present a self-consistent field theory model for the self-assembly behavior of rod-coil block copolymers. The orientational interactions between the rods were modeled through a Maier-Saupe interaction, while the enthalpic interactions between rods and coils were modeled through a standard Flory-Huggins approach. We outline a "real-space" numerical approach to solve the self-consistent field equations for such rod-coil block copolymers. A major focus of our work is upon the nonlamellar phases observed in the experiments on such polymers. To develop a physical understanding of these phases and their regimes of occurrence, we compute the two-dimensional phase diagram for our model. The latter shows significant departures from the one-dimensional phase diagram, but matches qualitatively with the existing experimental results. We also present scaling arguments that rationalize the numerical results for the self-assembly behavior.     

Supramolecular reactor in an aqueous environment: aromatic cross Suzuki coupling reaction at room temperature

[reaction: see text] We have investigated supramolecular reactors for the Suzuki coupling reactions of aryl halides with phenyl boronic acids by using self-assembly of amphiphilic rod-coil molecules in aqueous solution at room temperature. All the rod-coil molecules synthesized in this work showed to self-assemble into discrete micelles consisting of aromatic rod bundles encapsulated by hydrophilic poly(ethylene oxide) coils. We present a comparative study of rod-coil molecules' efficiency as supramolecular reactors for Suzuki coupling reaction. The closed-packed aromatic bundles play an efficient role in supramolecular reactors for the coupling reactions at room temperature. The supramolecular reactor based on hexa-p-phenylene confers unprecedented activity, allowing reactions to be performed at very low catalyst levels, without conventional heating or microwave.     

Supramolecular reactor from self-assembly of rod-coil molecule in aqueous environment

We synthesized an amphiphilic coil-rod-coil triblock molecule consisting of hexa-p-phenylene as a rod block and poly(ethylene oxide) with the number of repeating units of 17 as coil blocks and investigated aggregation behavior in aqueous environment. The rod-coil molecule was observed to aggregate into discrete micelles consisting of hydrophobic disklike rod bundles encapsulated by hydrophilic poly(ethylene oxide) coils. The aromatic bundles of the micelles were demonstrated to be used as an efficient supramolecular reactor for the room temperature Suzuki cross-coupling reaction of a wide range of aryl halides, including even aryl chlorides with phenylboronic acids in aqueous environment. These results demonstrate that self-assembly of amphiphilic rod-coil molecules can provide a useful strategy to construct an efficient supramolecular reactor for aromatic coupling reaction.     

Self-assembly of linear rod-coil multiblock copolymers

The self-assembly of the linear rod-coil multiblock copolymers is studied by applying self-consistent-field lattice techniques in a three-dimensional (3D) space. Compared to the copolymer with one rod, the copolymer with more rods (mrod≥2) exhibits rich order-order phase transitions with increasing temperature, where the ordered morphology changes from strips to perforated lamellae and finally to lamellae. In addition, taking the copolymer with mrod = 2 as a representative, we further study the effects of the volume fractions of the rods, the spacer coils and the end coils on the phase behaviors respectively, by which the detailed self-assembled mechanism of the linear rod-coil multiblock copolymers is revealed. Our results are expected to provide guidance for the design of the rod-coil materials.     

Synthesis and self-assembly of oligomers containing cruciform 9,10-bis(arylethynyl)anthracene unit: formation of supramolecular nanostructures based on rod-length-dependent organization

Conjugated rod-coil molecules, incorporating flexible and rigid blocks, have a strong affinity to self-organize into various supramolecular nanostructures in the bulk state.In this study, we report synthesized oligomers containing cruciform 9,10-bis(arylethynyl)anthracene units and characterized their self-assembly behavior. The molecular structures were characterized with ¹H, ¹³C NMR, and matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight (MALDI-TOF) mass spectroscopy. An investigation of the supramolecular nanostructures of these molecules using differential scanning calorimetry, thermal polarized optical microscopy, and small-angle X-ray scattering revealed that the rod length of coil-rod-coil molecules with identical rod to coil volume ratios dramatically influences self-assembly behavior in the bulk state. Molecules 2 and 3 with relatively longer rod lengths self-assemble into lamellar structures in the solid state, whereas, molecules 1 and 4 self-assemble into two-dimensional (2-D) oblique columnar structures in the liquid crystalline phase, in addition, on heating, molecule 1 transforms from the oblique columnar phase to the nematic phase.     

Self-assembly behavior of ABA coil-rod-coil triblock copolymers: a Brownian dynamics simulation approach

The self-assembly behavior of ABA coil-rod-coil triblock copolymers in a selective solvent was studied by a Brownian molecular dynamics simulation method. It was found that the rod midblock plays an important role in the self-assembly of the copolymers. With a decrease in the segregation strength, ?(RR), of rod pairs, the aggregate structure first varies from a smecticlike disk shape to a long twisted string micelle and then to small aggregates. The influence of the block length and the asymmetry of the triblock copolymer on the phase behavior were studied and the corresponding phase diagrams were mapped. It was revealed that the variation of these parameters has a profound effect on microstructure. The simulation results are consistent with experimental results. Compared to rod-coil diblock copolymers, the coil-rod-coil triblock copolymers has a larger entropy penalty associated with the interfacial grafting density of the aggregate, leading to a higher ?(RR) value for structural transitions.     

Nano-Patterning via Molecular Self-Assembly

Surface patterning with microscopically defined structures is a rapidly developing topic, although it is still a challenge for generating patterned surface in the size range of nanometer. Molecular assemblies normally in the size range of 1 to 102 nm should overcome easily the conventional lithographic limit. Although many techniques have been developed to generate patterned surface, surface patterning totally directed by molecular self-assembly has been less addressed. For this purpose, ways of molecular self-assembly to generate regular arrays of nanostructures have been demonstrated in our laboratory including chemisorption of dendron-thiols,surface adsorption of bolaform amphiphiles, and nano-phase separation of rod-coil diblock molecules. As to be discussed, molecular self-assembly is an alternative but effective way to produce patterned structures, particularly in the range of a few nanometers.     

基于聚环氧乙烷链和亚苯基的刚棒-线团分子自组装

含有亲水性聚环氧乙烷(PEO)链和多个亚苯基作为刚棒的刚棒-线团(rod-coil)分子,由于具有很强的π-π堆积作用和微相分离作用,可以在本体和溶液中产生有序排列形成各种组装体。材料的性能主要依靠分子聚集体来体现,因此研究分子聚集体的性质和用途成为当前超分子领域研究的重要内容。刚棒嵌段的形状影响着分子排列的方式、自组织性能和微结构,本文总结了Y型、T 型、O型、 K型、n型、螺旋桨型和哑铃型等不同形状分子的自组装行为,并展望了此类刚棒-线团分子未来研究的方向。     

Poly(3-alkylthiophene) diblock copolymers with ordered microstructures and continuous semiconducting pathways

Conjugated rod-coil diblock copolymers self-assemble due to a balance of liquid crystalline (rod-rod) and enthalpic (rod-coil) interactions. Previous work has shown that while classical block copolymers self-assemble into a wide variety of nanostructures, when rod-rod interactions dominate self-assembly in rod-coil block copolymers, lamellar structures are preferred. Here, it is demonstrated that other, potentially more useful, nanostructures can be formed when these two interactions are more closely balanced. In particular, hexagonally packed polylactide (PLA) cylinders embedded in a semiconducting poly(3-alkylthiophene) (P3AT) matrix can be formed. This microstructure has been long-sought as it provides an opportunity to incorporate additional functionalities into a majority phase nanostructured conjugated polymer, for example in organic photovoltaic applications. Previous efforts to generate this phase in polythiophene-based block copolymers have failed due to the high driving force for P3AT crystallization. Here, we demonstrate that careful design of the P3AT moiety allows for a balance between crystallization and microphase separation due to chemical dissimilarity between copolymer blocks. In addition to hexagonally packed cylinders, P3AT-PLA block copolymers form nanostructures with long-range order at all block copolymer compositions. Importantly, the conjugated moiety of the P3AT-PLA block copolymers retains the crystalline packing structure and characteristic high time-of-flight charge transport of the homopolymer polythiophene (μ(h) ~10(-4) cm(2) V(-1) s(-1)) in the confined geometry of the block copolymer domains.