• Macromolecular Research
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• 제12권5호
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• pp.528-533
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• 2004

We have prepared amide dendrons having alkyl peripheral units and various focal moieties through a convergent synthetic approach. The amphiphilic properties, due to hydrophilic amide branches and the hydrophobic peripheral units, provide an opportunity for the amide dendrons to self-organize in water. The dendritic architecture itself is also one of the critical factors in the self-organization of the amide dendrons in water. In particular, function-alization was performed at the focal point to elucidate the relationship between the focal functionality and the self-organized structures of the dendritic building blocks in the aqueous phase. The dendron having a short poly(ethylene glycol) monomethyl ether (MeO-PEG) unit (M$\_$n/ =750) as the focal moiety formed a vesicular organization in water. As the size of the hydrophilic focal MeO-PEG increased to M$\_$n/ =2,000 and 5,000, the self-organized structures became rod-type and spherical micelles, respectively. Our observation of multiple morphologies for amide dendrons is in good agreement with previous reports that indicated that the micellar structures changed from vesicles to rod-types and then to spheres upon increasing the size of the hydrophilic moiety of the amphiphiles.

• Macromolecular Research
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.52-58
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• 2006

A novel fabrication of the patterned surfaces in the polymer films was demonstrated by using the self-organizing character of the block copolymers of polystyrene-b-oligothiophenes and polystyrene-b-aromatic amide dendron. Hexagonally arranged open pores with a micrometer-size were spontaneously formed by casting the polymer solutions under a moist air flow. The amphiphilic character of the block copolymers played the crucial role as a surfactant to stabilize the inverse emulsion of water in the organic solvent, and subsequently the aggregated structure of the hydrophilic oligothiophene or aromatic amide dendron segments remained on the interiors of the micropores. The chemical composition on the top of the surface of the microporous films was characterized by energy-filtering transmission electron microscopy (EFTEM) or a time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometer (ToF-SIMS). The characterizations clearly indicated that the patterned surfaces in the self-organized block copolymer films with the hexagonally ordered microporous structures were fabricated in a single step.

• 폴리머
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• 제33권2호
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• pp.158-163
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• 2009

본 연구에서는 잘 정의된 덴드리틱 폴리스티렌-블록-선형 폴리(3차 부틸 아크릴레이트) 공중합체를 성공적으로 합성하였다. 음이온 중합법을 통해 합성된 폴리스티렌($M_n$=1000 g/mol)을 외곽부분으로 함유하는 덴드론의 수산기 그룹을 토실화(tosylation), 아지드화(azidation), 환원(reduction) 반응을 통해 아민기로 전환하였다. 한편, 선형 poly(t-butyl acrylate)는 DMF 용매에서 benzyl 2-bromopropanoate/Cu(I)Br, PMDETA/t-butylacrylate를 각각 개시제/촉매 시스템/단량체로 사용하여, 원자이동라디칼 중합법(atom transfer radical polymerization, ATRP)을 통해 합성할 수 있었고, 말단을 카르복시산 그룹으로 전환하기 위해 수소기체 환경하에서 Pd/C 을 사용하여 탈벤질화(debenzylation) 반응을 수행하였다. 마지막으로, 합성된 덴드리틱 및 선형 블록들을 다이메틸아미노피리딘(4-(dimethylamino)pyridine, DMAP)과 다이아이소프로필카보다이이미드(N,N'-diisopropylcarbodiimide, DIPC)를 이용한 아미드 커플링 방법을 통해 최종 덴드리틱-선형의 블록공중합체를 합성하였다. 합성된 블록공중합체를 수소원자핵공명법 및 겔침투크로마토그래피 방법을 통해 조사한 결과, 잘 정의된 분자량 및 낮은 분자량 분포를 확인할 수 있었다.