Ionene- and oligo(ethylene glycol)-containing amphiphilic methacrylate-based molecular bottle-brush polymers
摘要
Novel methacrylate-based molecular bottle-brush polymers containing ionene fragments, hydrophilic oligo(ethylene glycol) and hydrophobic alkyl groups, in the side chains were synthesized by the polymerization method via reversible addition—fragmentation chain transfer mechanism in organic solvents and characterized. The solubility in various solvents was shown for the synthesized molecular bottle-brushes, while the critical micelle concentrations and hydrodynamic sizes of the formed self-assembled aggregates were determined in aqueous solution. The influence of the characteristics of the polymers on the thermoresponsive and surface-active properties and the capacity of the polymer micelles toward pyrene (as a model of a low-molecular-weight hydrophobic drug) were studied.