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Surface-Engineered Nanocontainers Based on Molecular Self-Assembly and Their Release of Methenamine
The mixing of polymers and nanoparticles is opening pathways for engineering flexible composites that exhibit advantageous functional properties. To fabricate controllable assembling nanocomposites for efficiently encapsulating methenamine and releasing them on demand, we functionalized the surface...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6415060/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30966199 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym10020163 |
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author | Zhang, Minghui Wang, Jinben Zhang, Pei Yan, Haike |
author_facet | Zhang, Minghui Wang, Jinben Zhang, Pei Yan, Haike |
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description | The mixing of polymers and nanoparticles is opening pathways for engineering flexible composites that exhibit advantageous functional properties. To fabricate controllable assembling nanocomposites for efficiently encapsulating methenamine and releasing them on demand, we functionalized the surface of natural halloysite nanotubes (HNTs) selectively with polymerizable gemini surfactant which has peculiar aggregation behavior, aiming at endowing the nanomaterials with self-assembly and stimulative responsiveness characteristics. The micromorphology, grafted components and functional groups were identified using transmission electron microscopy (TEM), thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy, and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). The created nanocomposites presented various characteristics of methenamine release with differences in the surface composition. It is particularly worth mentioning that the controlled release was more efficient with the increase of geminized monomer proportion, which is reasonably attributed to the fact that the amphiphilic geminized moieties with positive charge and obvious hydrophobic interactions interact with the outer and inner surface in different ways through fabricating polymeric shell as release stoppers at nanotube ends and forming polymer brush into the nanotube lumen for guest immobilization. Meanwhile, the nanocomposites present temperature and salinity responsive characteristics for the release of methenamine. The combination of HNTs with conjugated functional polymers will open pathways for engineering flexible composites which are promising for application in controlled release fields. |
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spelling | pubmed-64150602019-04-02 Surface-Engineered Nanocontainers Based on Molecular Self-Assembly and Their Release of Methenamine Zhang, Minghui Wang, Jinben Zhang, Pei Yan, Haike Polymers (Basel) Article The mixing of polymers and nanoparticles is opening pathways for engineering flexible composites that exhibit advantageous functional properties. To fabricate controllable assembling nanocomposites for efficiently encapsulating methenamine and releasing them on demand, we functionalized the surface of natural halloysite nanotubes (HNTs) selectively with polymerizable gemini surfactant which has peculiar aggregation behavior, aiming at endowing the nanomaterials with self-assembly and stimulative responsiveness characteristics. The micromorphology, grafted components and functional groups were identified using transmission electron microscopy (TEM), thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy, and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). The created nanocomposites presented various characteristics of methenamine release with differences in the surface composition. It is particularly worth mentioning that the controlled release was more efficient with the increase of geminized monomer proportion, which is reasonably attributed to the fact that the amphiphilic geminized moieties with positive charge and obvious hydrophobic interactions interact with the outer and inner surface in different ways through fabricating polymeric shell as release stoppers at nanotube ends and forming polymer brush into the nanotube lumen for guest immobilization. Meanwhile, the nanocomposites present temperature and salinity responsive characteristics for the release of methenamine. The combination of HNTs with conjugated functional polymers will open pathways for engineering flexible composites which are promising for application in controlled release fields. MDPI 2018-02-08 /pmc/articles/PMC6415060/ /pubmed/30966199 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym10020163 Text en © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Zhang, Minghui Wang, Jinben Zhang, Pei Yan, Haike Surface-Engineered Nanocontainers Based on Molecular Self-Assembly and Their Release of Methenamine |
title | Surface-Engineered Nanocontainers Based on Molecular Self-Assembly and Their Release of Methenamine |
title_full | Surface-Engineered Nanocontainers Based on Molecular Self-Assembly and Their Release of Methenamine |
title_fullStr | Surface-Engineered Nanocontainers Based on Molecular Self-Assembly and Their Release of Methenamine |
title_full_unstemmed | Surface-Engineered Nanocontainers Based on Molecular Self-Assembly and Their Release of Methenamine |
title_short | Surface-Engineered Nanocontainers Based on Molecular Self-Assembly and Their Release of Methenamine |
title_sort | surface-engineered nanocontainers based on molecular self-assembly and their release of methenamine |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6415060/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30966199 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym10020163 |
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