Persistence Length of PEGMA Bottle Brushes Determined by Pyrene Excimer Fluorescence

Seven pyrene-labeled poly(oligo(ethylene glycol) methyl ether methacrylate)s (PyEG5-PEGnMAs) were prepared with n = 0, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, and 19 ethylene glycol units by copolymerizing a small amount of penta(ethylene glycol) 1-pyrenemethyl ether methacrylate with an EGnMA monomer. The conformation of t...

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Published inPolymers Vol. 15; no. 19; p. 3958
Main Authors Thoma, Janine L., Little, Hunter, Duhamel, Jean, Zhang, Lei, Leung, Kam Tong
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Basel MDPI AG 30.09.2023
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Subjects
Analysis
Atomic properties
Bisphenol A
Chloride
Chromatography
Copolymerization
Ethylene glycol
Excimers
Fluorescence
fluorescence blob model
Hydrogen atoms
Kratky–Porod equation
Mechanical properties
Methyl ether
Molecular weight
Optical properties
persistence length
Polyethylene glycol
Polymers
Polymethyl methacrylate
pyrene excimer fluorescence
Sodium
Viscosity
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Summary:Seven pyrene-labeled poly(oligo(ethylene glycol) methyl ether methacrylate)s (PyEG5-PEGnMAs) were prepared with n = 0, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, and 19 ethylene glycol units by copolymerizing a small amount of penta(ethylene glycol) 1-pyrenemethyl ether methacrylate with an EGnMA monomer. The conformation of the PyEG5-PEGnMA polymers evolved from a random coil for PyEG5-PEG0MA or poly(methyl methacrylate) to a polymeric bottle brush (PBB) architecture with increasing side chain length. The fluorescence decays of the PyEG5-PEGnMA samples were fitted according to the fluorescence blob model (FBM) whose parameters were used, in combination with the Kratky–Porod equation, to calculate the persistence length of these polymers. The persistence lengths obtained from the PEF experiments were found to increase with the square of the number (NS) of non-hydrogen atoms in the side chain as expected theoretically. The persistence lengths found with the PyEG5-PEGnMA samples in DMF also matched those found earlier for another series of PEGnMA samples labeled with 1-pyrenebutanol. The good agreement found between the persistence lengths obtained with the PEGnMA samples labeled with two different pyrene derivatives illustrates the robustness of the method and its applicability for measuring the unknown persistence length of polydisperse polymer samples.
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ISSN:2073-4360
2073-4360
DOI:10.3390/polym15193958