TY - JOUR
T1 - Fluorescent "barcode" multiblock co-micelles via the living self-assembly of di- and triblock copolymers with a crystalline core-forming metalloblock
AU - He, Feng
AU - Gädt, Torben
AU - Manners, Ian
AU - Winnik, Mitchell A.
PY - 2011/6/15
Y1 - 2011/6/15
N2 - We describe the self-assembly in 2-propanol (2-PrOH) of the triblock copolymer, poly(ferrocenyldimethylsilane-b-2-vinylpyridine-b-2,5-di(2′- ethylhexyloxy)-1,4-phenylvinylene) (PFS30-b-P2VP300-b- PDEHPV13, the subscripts refer to the degree of polymerization). The intense fluorescence of the PDEHPV moieties rendered the resulting cylindrical micelles and their aggregates visible in solution by laser confocal fluorescence microscopy (LCFM). Sonication yielded micelle fragments that could be grown into elongated fiber-like micelles 10 nm in width and nearly monodisperse in length by adding additional block polymer as a solution in tetrahydrofuran. The presence of the conjugated block in the corona promoted slow aggregation of the micelles into hierarchical flower-like structures, but this secondary assembly could be reversed by warming the solution to 50 °C for 30 min. When a solution of 500 nm long micelles of PFS30-b-P2VP300-b- PDEHPV13 in 2-PrOH was treated sequentially with controlled amounts of the diblock copolymer PFS30-b-P2VP300, and in intervals of 24 h, with additional aliquots of PFS30-b-P2VP 300-b-PDEHPV13, PFS30-b-P2VP30, and PFS30-b-P2VP300-b- PDEHPV13, uniform rod-like multiblock co-micelles were obtained with remarkable optical properties: a banded light-emitting "barcode" structure with fluorescent segments of the triblock copolymer separated by nonemissive segments made up of the diblock copolymer.
AB - We describe the self-assembly in 2-propanol (2-PrOH) of the triblock copolymer, poly(ferrocenyldimethylsilane-b-2-vinylpyridine-b-2,5-di(2′- ethylhexyloxy)-1,4-phenylvinylene) (PFS30-b-P2VP300-b- PDEHPV13, the subscripts refer to the degree of polymerization). The intense fluorescence of the PDEHPV moieties rendered the resulting cylindrical micelles and their aggregates visible in solution by laser confocal fluorescence microscopy (LCFM). Sonication yielded micelle fragments that could be grown into elongated fiber-like micelles 10 nm in width and nearly monodisperse in length by adding additional block polymer as a solution in tetrahydrofuran. The presence of the conjugated block in the corona promoted slow aggregation of the micelles into hierarchical flower-like structures, but this secondary assembly could be reversed by warming the solution to 50 °C for 30 min. When a solution of 500 nm long micelles of PFS30-b-P2VP300-b- PDEHPV13 in 2-PrOH was treated sequentially with controlled amounts of the diblock copolymer PFS30-b-P2VP300, and in intervals of 24 h, with additional aliquots of PFS30-b-P2VP 300-b-PDEHPV13, PFS30-b-P2VP30, and PFS30-b-P2VP300-b- PDEHPV13, uniform rod-like multiblock co-micelles were obtained with remarkable optical properties: a banded light-emitting "barcode" structure with fluorescent segments of the triblock copolymer separated by nonemissive segments made up of the diblock copolymer.
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U2 - 10.1021/ja202662u
DO - 10.1021/ja202662u
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:79958787568
SN - 0002-7863
VL - 133
SP - 9095
EP - 9103
JO - Journal of the American Chemical Society
JF - Journal of the American Chemical Society
IS - 23
ER -