Macromolecules

Synthesis and characterization of polymer brushes of poly (N, N-dimethylacrylamide) from polystyrene latex by aqueous atom transfer radical polymerization

KN Jayachandran, A Takacs-Cox, DE Brooks

Index: Jayachandran; Takacs-Cox, Aniko; Brooks, Donald E. Macromolecules, 2002 , vol. 35, # 11 p. 4247 - 4257

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Abstract

Negatively charged polystyrene latex was synthesized, and a copolymer shell of 2-(methyl-2'- chloropropionato) ethyl acrylate (HEA-Cl) and styrene was added, from which poly (N, N- dimethylacrylamide)(PDMA) was polymerized by atom transfer radical polymerization in aqueous suspension at room temperature. Increasing monomer concentration in the presence of CuCl or CuBr and one of three ligands (N, N, N', N', N''- ...