scholarly journals Thermoresponsive Poly(glycidyl ether) Brush Coatings on Various Tissue Culture Substrates—How Block Copolymer Design and Substrate Material Govern Self-Assembly and Phase Transition

Polymers ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 1899
Author(s):  
Daniel David Stöbener ◽  
Marie Weinhart

Thermoresponsive poly(glycidyl ether) brushes can be grafted to applied tissue culture substrates and used for the fabrication of primary human cell sheets. The self-assembly of such brushes is achieved via the directed physical adsorption and subsequent UV immobilization of block copolymers equipped with a short, photo-reactive benzophenone-based anchor block. Depending on the chemistry and hydrophobicity of the benzophenone anchor, we demonstrate that such block copolymers exhibit distinct thermoresponsive properties and aggregation behaviors in water. Independent on the block copolymer composition, we developed a versatile grafting-to process which allows the fabrication of poly(glycidyl ether) brushes on various tissue culture substrates from dilute aqueous-ethanolic solution. The viability of this process crucially depends on the chemistry and hydrophobicity of, both, benzophenone-based anchor block and substrate material. Utilizing these insights, we were able to manufacture thermoresponsive poly(glycidyl ether) brushes on moderately hydrophobic polystyrene and polycarbonate as well as on rather hydrophilic polyethylene terephthalate and tissue culture-treated polystyrene substrates. We further show that the temperature-dependent switchability of the brush coatings is not only dependent on the cloud point temperature of the block copolymers, but also markedly governed by the hydrophobicity of the surface-bound benzophenone anchor and the subjacent substrate material. Our findings demonstrate that the design of amphiphilic thermoresponsive block copolymers is crucial for their phase transition characteristics in solution and on surfaces.

2020 ◽  
Vol 1000 ◽  
pp. 324-330
Author(s):  
Sri Agustina ◽  
Masayoshi Tokuda ◽  
Hideto Minami ◽  
Cyrille Boyer ◽  
Per B. Zetterlund

The self-assembly of block copolymers has attracted attention for many decades because it can yield polymeric nanoobjects with a wide range of morphologies. Membrane emulsification is a fairly novel technique for preparation of various types of emulsions, which relies on the dispersed phase passing through a membrane in order to effect droplet formation. In this study, we have prepared polymeric nanoparticles of different morphologies using self-assembly of asymmetric block copolymers in connection with membrane emulsification. Shirasu Porous Glass (SPG) membranes has been employed as the membrane emulsification equipment, and poly (oligoethylene glycol acrylate)-block-poly (styrene) (POEGA-b-PSt) copolymers prepared via RAFT polymerization. It has been found that a number of different morphologies can be achieved using this novel technique, including spheres, rods, and vesicles. Interestingly, the results have shown that the morphology can be controlled not only by adjusting experimental parameters specific to the membrane emulsification step such as membrane pore size and pressure, but also by changing the nature of organic solvent. As such, this method provides a novel route to these interesting nanoobjects, with interesting prospects in terms of exercising morphology control without altering the nature of the block copolymer itself.


2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (10) ◽  
pp. 1817-1829 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lichao Liu ◽  
Leilei Rui ◽  
Yun Gao ◽  
Weian Zhang

The synthesis and self-assembly of ferrocene-containing block copolymers PEG-b-PMAEFc, and the encapsulation and redox-responsive release of a model molecule (rhodamine B) upon external redox stimuli (H2O2).


2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (10) ◽  
pp. 1489-1500 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silke Heinen ◽  
Simon Rackow ◽  
Jose Luis Cuellar-Camacho ◽  
Ievgen S. Donskyi ◽  
Wolfgang E. S. Unger ◽  
...  

Thermoresponsive poly(glycidyl ether) coatings prepared by self-assembly of a block-copolymer on glass facilitate cell sheet fabrication with human dermal fibroblasts.


RSC Advances ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (32) ◽  
pp. 16721-16725 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gianpaolo Chieffi ◽  
Rocco Di Girolamo ◽  
Antonio Aronne ◽  
Pasquale Pernice ◽  
Esther Fanelli ◽  
...  

A fast method for the preparation of block-copolymer-based hybrid composite nanostructures and titania substrates well oriented over a large area, is illustrated.


2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (23) ◽  
pp. 3647-3656 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryoto Tanaka ◽  
Kodai Watanabe ◽  
Takuya Yamamoto ◽  
Kenji Tajima ◽  
Takuya Isono ◽  
...  

The effect of intramolecular cross-linking on aqueous self-assembly behavior was systematically investigated based on an amphiphilic block copolymer system.


RSC Advances ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (55) ◽  
pp. 44218-44221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elio Poggi ◽  
Jean-Pierre Bourgeois ◽  
Bruno Ernould ◽  
Jean-François Gohy

We report a novel approach to synthesize well-defined polymeric Janus nanoparticles by combining the self-assembly of block copolymers in thin films and surface modification by polymer grafting.


Author(s):  
Lee M. Trask ◽  
Nacu Hernandez ◽  
Eric W. Cochran

This article explores the dynamics, thermodynamics, and small-angle scattering of block copolymers. The goal is to determine what drives the applications of block copolymers, i.e. how block copolymers behave and how they are characterized. The article begins with a summary of the experimental data and various theories that comprise our understanding of block copolymer thermodynamics, with particular emphasis on phase behavior and especially the theory of microphase separation. It then considers topics related to block copolymer dynamics, including diffusion, viscoelasticity and rheology, shear-processing, and the kinetics of self-assembly. It also discusses small-angle scattering techniques as applied to block copolymer characterization, including scattering from ordered block copolymer melts.


2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (45) ◽  
pp. 7147-7158
Author(s):  
Bret M. Boyle ◽  
Joseph L. Collins ◽  
Tara E. Mensch ◽  
Matthew D. Ryan ◽  
Brian S. Newell ◽  
...  

Four series of brush block copolymers with near identical side chain compositions but varying backbone structures were synthesized to investigate the effect of backbone structure on the thermal self-assembly to photonic crystals.


2019 ◽  
Vol 721 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Di Zhang ◽  
Zhanwei Shao ◽  
Weiguo Hu ◽  
Yuci Xu

Nanoscale ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (17) ◽  
pp. 8433-8441 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyunsung Jung ◽  
Won Ho Shin ◽  
Tae Wan Park ◽  
Young Joong Choi ◽  
Young Joon Yoon ◽  
...  

Unusual pattern generation of various 2D and 3D nanostructures can be achieved by the multiple self-assembly of block copolymers (BCPs) such as big-dot, double-dot, line-on-dot, pondering, dot-in-honeycomb, dot-in-pondering, and line-on-pondering patterns.


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