The synthesis of bottlebrush cellulose-graft-diblock copolymer elastomers via atom transfer radical polymerization utilizing a halide exchange technique

Juan Zhang; Zhongkai Wang; Xuehui Wang; Zhigang Wang

doi:10.1039/c9cc06982h

The synthesis of bottlebrush cellulose-graft-diblock copolymer elastomers via atom transfer radical polymerization utilizing a halide exchange technique

Chem Commun (Camb). 2019 Nov 14;55(92):13904-13907. doi: 10.1039/c9cc06982h.

Authors

Juan Zhang¹, Zhongkai Wang, Xuehui Wang, Zhigang Wang

Affiliation

¹ CAS Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Chemistry, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, P. R. China. zgwang2@ustc.edu.cn xhwang01@ustc.edu.cn.

PMID: 31681914
DOI: 10.1039/c9cc06982h

Abstract

A novel kind of bottlebrush cellulose-graft-diblock copolymer thermoplastic elastomer (Cell-g-PBA-b-PMMA) was synthesized by grafting from cellulose backbones via surface-initiated atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP). The mechanical properties of the bottlebrush copolymer elastomers can be adjusted by controlling the block lengths and composition of the side chains.