Surface‐Grafted conjugated polymers for hybrid cellulose materials |
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Authors: | Joseph J. Peterson Markus Willgert Susanne Hansson Eva Malmström Kenneth R. Carter |
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Affiliation: | 1. Polymer Science and Engineering Department, University of Massachusetts‐Amherst Conte Center for Polymer Research, 120 Governors Drive, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003;2. KTH Royal Institute of Technology, School of Chemical Engineering, Department of Fibre and Polymer Technology, SE‐100 44 Stockholm, Sweden |
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Abstract: | Conjugated polymers were grafted onto cellulose substrates in an effort to create a general method for the synthesis of conjugated polymer/cellulose hybrid materials. In this report, we describe the grafting of poly(fluorene), poly(fluorenevinylene), and a poly(fluorene‐ethynylene‐phenylene) onto modified cellulose paper substrates using Suzuki, Heck, and Sonogashira‐type polymerizations, respectively. The application of these three widely used coupling chemistries to surface‐grafted conjugated polymers on cellulose provides a general route to cellulose‐based hybrid materials tunable with almost any aromatic repeat structure for specific applications. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem, 2011 |
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Keywords: | conjugated polymer graft copolymers polymer brush semiconducting polymers step‐growth polymerization surfaces |
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