Probing solubilization sites in block copolymer micelles using fluorescence quenching |
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Authors: | Andrés F Olea Patricio Silva Irma Fuentes Francisco Martínez David R Worrall |
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Institution: | 1. Departamento de Ciencias Químicas, Facultad de Ecología y Recursos Naturales, Universidad Andrés Bello, República 275, Santiago, Chile;2. Facultad Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile;3. Department of Chemistry, Loughborough University, Leicestershire LE11 3TU, UK |
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Abstract: | The solubilization sites provided by micelles formed by a diblock copolymer with one neutral hydrophobic block, polystyrene, and one charged hydrophilic block, poly(acrylic acid) or poly(methacrylic acid), have been studied by fluorescence quenching of pyrene by polar and nonpolar quenchers. Pyrene solubilized into these micelles is distributed between the inner corona and the micelle core. The fraction of pyrene residing in the inner corona is almost unity for star micelles, where the corona-forming blocks are larger than the core-forming blocks, and around 0.5 for crew-cut micelles where the opposite situation prevails. The kinetics of the quenching process depends on the pyrene location, i.e. is static in the micelle core, and largely dynamic in the inner corona at low quencher concentration. The rate constants for fluorescence quenching by nitromethane are shown to increase with increasing pH. |
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