Polyphilicity—An Extension of the Concept of Amphiphilicity in Polymers

Polymers

Jörg Kressler¹  Daniel Heinz¹  Elkin Amado¹ 

[1] Department of Chemistry, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, D-06099 Halle (Saale), Germany;

关键词: polyphilicity;    amphiphilicity;    triphilic;    self-assembly;    hydrophilic;    lipophilic;    fluorophilic;    terpolymers;    block copolymers;    graft copolymers;   

DOI  :  10.3390/polym10090960

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Recent developments in synthetic pathways as simple reversible-deactivation radical polymerization (RDRP) techniques and quantitative post-polymerization reactions, most notoriously ‘click’ reactions, leading to segmented copolymers, have broadened the molecular architectures accessible to polymer chemists as a matter of routine. Segments can be blocks, grafted chains, branchings, telechelic end-groups, covalently attached nanoparticles, nanodomains in networks, even sequences of random copolymers, and so on. In this review, we describe the variety of the segmented synthetic copolymers landscape from the point of view of their chemical affinity, or synonymous philicity, in bulk or with their surroundings, such as solvents, permeant gases, and solid surfaces. We focus on recent contributions, current trends, and perspectives regarding polyphilic copolymers, which have, in addition to hydrophilic and lipophilic segments, other philicities, for example, towards solvents, fluorophilic entities, ions, silicones, metals, nanoparticles, and liquid crystalline moieties.

【 授权许可】

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