• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Hierarchical Self‐Assembly of Double‐Crystalline Poly(ferrocenyldimethylsilane)‐block‐poly(2‐iso‐propyl‐2‐oxazoline) (PFDMS‐b‐PiPrOx) Block Copolymers
  • Contributor: Rudolph, Tobias; Nunns, Adam; Stumpf, Steffi; Pietsch, Christian; Schacher, Felix H.
  • imprint: Wiley, 2015
  • Published in: Macromolecular Rapid Communications
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1002/marc.201500245
  • ISSN: 1022-1336; 1521-3927
  • Keywords: Materials Chemistry ; Polymers and Plastics ; Organic Chemistry
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  • Description: <jats:p>The step‐wise solution self‐assembly of double crystalline organometallic poly(ferrocenyldimethylsilane)‐<jats:italic>block</jats:italic>‐poly(2‐<jats:italic>iso</jats:italic>‐propyl‐2‐oxazoline) (PFDMS‐<jats:italic>b</jats:italic>‐P<jats:italic>i</jats:italic>PrO<jats:italic>x</jats:italic>) diblock copolymers is demonstrated. Two block copolymers are obtained by copper‐catalyzed azide‐alkyne cycloaddition (CuAAC), featuring PFDMS/P<jats:italic>i</jats:italic>PrOx weight fractions of 46/54 (PFDMS<jats:sub>30</jats:sub>‐<jats:italic>b</jats:italic>‐P<jats:italic>i</jats:italic>PrOx<jats:sub>75</jats:sub>) and 30/70 (PFDMS<jats:sub>30</jats:sub>‐<jats:italic>b</jats:italic>‐P<jats:italic>i</jats:italic>PrOx<jats:sub>155</jats:sub>). Nonsolvent induced crystallization of PFDMS in acetone leads in both cases to cylindrical micelles with a PFDMS core. Afterward, the structures are transferred into water for sequential temperature‐induced crystallization of the P<jats:italic>i</jats:italic>PrOx corona, leading to hierarchical double crystalline superstructures, which are investigated using scanning electron microscopy, wide angle X‐ray scattering, and differential scanning calorimetry. <jats:boxed-text content-type="graphic" position="anchor"><jats:graphic xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" mimetype="image/png" position="anchor" specific-use="enlarged-web-image" xlink:href="graphic/marc201500245-abs-0001-m.png"><jats:alt-text>image</jats:alt-text></jats:graphic></jats:boxed-text></jats:p>