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Structure and pH-Induced Swelling of Polymer Films Prepared from Sequentially Grafted Polyelectrolytes

[Image: see text] We have prepared a series of ampholytic polymer films, using a self-initiated photografting and photopolymerization (SI-PGP) method to sequentially polymerize first anionic (deuterated methacrylic acid (dMAA)) and thereafter cationic (2-aminoethyl methacrylate (AEMA)) monomers to i...

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Autores principales: Nagy, Béla, Campana, Mario, Khaydukov, Yury N., Ederth, Thomas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Chemical Society 2022
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8830213/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35081310
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.1c02784
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author Nagy, Béla
Campana, Mario
Khaydukov, Yury N.
Ederth, Thomas
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Campana, Mario
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description [Image: see text] We have prepared a series of ampholytic polymer films, using a self-initiated photografting and photopolymerization (SI-PGP) method to sequentially polymerize first anionic (deuterated methacrylic acid (dMAA)) and thereafter cationic (2-aminoethyl methacrylate (AEMA)) monomers to investigate the SI-PGP grafting process. Dry films were investigated by ellipsometry, X-ray, and neutron reflectometry, and their swelling was followed over a pH range from 4.5 to 10.5 with spectroscopic ellipsometry. The deuterated monomer allows us to separate the distributions of the two components by neutron reflectometry. Growth of both polymers proceeds via grafting of solution-polymerized fragments to the surface, and also the second layer is primarily grafted to the substrate and not as a continuation of the existing chains. The polymer films are stratified, with one layer of near 1:1 composition and the other layer enriched in one component and located either above or below the former layer. The ellipsometry results show swelling transitions at low and high pH but with no systematic variation in the pH values where these transitions occur. The results suggest that grafting density in SI-PGP-prepared homopolymers could be increased via repeated polymerization steps, but that this process does not necessarily increase the average chain length.
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spelling pubmed-88302132022-02-11 Structure and pH-Induced Swelling of Polymer Films Prepared from Sequentially Grafted Polyelectrolytes Nagy, Béla Campana, Mario Khaydukov, Yury N. Ederth, Thomas Langmuir [Image: see text] We have prepared a series of ampholytic polymer films, using a self-initiated photografting and photopolymerization (SI-PGP) method to sequentially polymerize first anionic (deuterated methacrylic acid (dMAA)) and thereafter cationic (2-aminoethyl methacrylate (AEMA)) monomers to investigate the SI-PGP grafting process. Dry films were investigated by ellipsometry, X-ray, and neutron reflectometry, and their swelling was followed over a pH range from 4.5 to 10.5 with spectroscopic ellipsometry. The deuterated monomer allows us to separate the distributions of the two components by neutron reflectometry. Growth of both polymers proceeds via grafting of solution-polymerized fragments to the surface, and also the second layer is primarily grafted to the substrate and not as a continuation of the existing chains. The polymer films are stratified, with one layer of near 1:1 composition and the other layer enriched in one component and located either above or below the former layer. The ellipsometry results show swelling transitions at low and high pH but with no systematic variation in the pH values where these transitions occur. The results suggest that grafting density in SI-PGP-prepared homopolymers could be increased via repeated polymerization steps, but that this process does not necessarily increase the average chain length. American Chemical Society 2022-01-26 2022-02-08 /pmc/articles/PMC8830213/ /pubmed/35081310 http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.1c02784 Text en © 2022 The Authors. Published by American Chemical Society https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Permits the broadest form of re-use including for commercial purposes, provided that author attribution and integrity are maintained (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Structure and pH-Induced Swelling of Polymer Films Prepared from Sequentially Grafted Polyelectrolytes
title Structure and pH-Induced Swelling of Polymer Films Prepared from Sequentially Grafted Polyelectrolytes
title_full Structure and pH-Induced Swelling of Polymer Films Prepared from Sequentially Grafted Polyelectrolytes
title_fullStr Structure and pH-Induced Swelling of Polymer Films Prepared from Sequentially Grafted Polyelectrolytes
title_full_unstemmed Structure and pH-Induced Swelling of Polymer Films Prepared from Sequentially Grafted Polyelectrolytes
title_short Structure and pH-Induced Swelling of Polymer Films Prepared from Sequentially Grafted Polyelectrolytes
title_sort structure and ph-induced swelling of polymer films prepared from sequentially grafted polyelectrolytes
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8830213/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35081310
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.1c02784
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