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Mixing of immiscible polymers using nanoporous coordination templates
The establishment of methodologies for the mixing of immiscible substances is highly desirable to facilitate the development of fundamental science and materials technology. Herein we describe a new protocol for the compatibilization of immiscible polymers at the molecular level using porous coordin...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4506999/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26130294 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms8473 |
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author | Uemura, Takashi Kaseda, Tetsuya Sasaki, Yotaro Inukai, Munehiro Toriyama, Takaaki Takahara, Atsushi Jinnai, Hiroshi Kitagawa, Susumu |
author_facet | Uemura, Takashi Kaseda, Tetsuya Sasaki, Yotaro Inukai, Munehiro Toriyama, Takaaki Takahara, Atsushi Jinnai, Hiroshi Kitagawa, Susumu |
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description | The establishment of methodologies for the mixing of immiscible substances is highly desirable to facilitate the development of fundamental science and materials technology. Herein we describe a new protocol for the compatibilization of immiscible polymers at the molecular level using porous coordination polymers (PCPs) as removable templates. In this process, the typical immiscible polymer pair of polystyrene (PSt) and poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) was prepared via the successive homopolymerizations of their monomers in a PCP to distribute the polymers inside the PCP particles. Subsequent dissolution of the PCP frameworks in a chelator solution affords a PSt/PMMA blend that is homogeneous in the range of several nanometers. Due to the unusual compatibilization, the thermal properties of the polymer blend are remarkably improved compared with the conventional solvent-cast blend. This method is also applicable to the compatibilization of PSt and polyacrylonitrile, which have very different solubility parameters. |
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spelling | pubmed-45069992015-07-21 Mixing of immiscible polymers using nanoporous coordination templates Uemura, Takashi Kaseda, Tetsuya Sasaki, Yotaro Inukai, Munehiro Toriyama, Takaaki Takahara, Atsushi Jinnai, Hiroshi Kitagawa, Susumu Nat Commun Article The establishment of methodologies for the mixing of immiscible substances is highly desirable to facilitate the development of fundamental science and materials technology. Herein we describe a new protocol for the compatibilization of immiscible polymers at the molecular level using porous coordination polymers (PCPs) as removable templates. In this process, the typical immiscible polymer pair of polystyrene (PSt) and poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) was prepared via the successive homopolymerizations of their monomers in a PCP to distribute the polymers inside the PCP particles. Subsequent dissolution of the PCP frameworks in a chelator solution affords a PSt/PMMA blend that is homogeneous in the range of several nanometers. Due to the unusual compatibilization, the thermal properties of the polymer blend are remarkably improved compared with the conventional solvent-cast blend. This method is also applicable to the compatibilization of PSt and polyacrylonitrile, which have very different solubility parameters. Nature Pub. Group 2015-07-01 /pmc/articles/PMC4506999/ /pubmed/26130294 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms8473 Text en Copyright © 2015, Nature Publishing Group, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited. All Rights Reserved. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
spellingShingle | Article Uemura, Takashi Kaseda, Tetsuya Sasaki, Yotaro Inukai, Munehiro Toriyama, Takaaki Takahara, Atsushi Jinnai, Hiroshi Kitagawa, Susumu Mixing of immiscible polymers using nanoporous coordination templates |
title | Mixing of immiscible polymers using nanoporous coordination templates |
title_full | Mixing of immiscible polymers using nanoporous coordination templates |
title_fullStr | Mixing of immiscible polymers using nanoporous coordination templates |
title_full_unstemmed | Mixing of immiscible polymers using nanoporous coordination templates |
title_short | Mixing of immiscible polymers using nanoporous coordination templates |
title_sort | mixing of immiscible polymers using nanoporous coordination templates |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4506999/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26130294 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms8473 |
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