Preparation of dendritic adamantane‐based polymers/layered silicate nanocomposites |
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| Authors: | Amal Amin Heba Kandil Mohamed Nader Ismail Nergis Makal Charles N Moorefield George R Newkome |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Polymer Science, National Research Center, , Giza, Egypt;2. Department of Polymer Science, The University of Akron, , Akron, OH, 44325‐4717;3. The Maurice Morton Institute for Polymer Science, The University of Akron, , Akron, OH, 44325‐4717;4. Department of Chemistry, The University of Akron, , Akron, OH, 44325‐4717 |
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| Abstract: | An adamantane‐based atom transfer radical initiator (Adm‐Br) was prepared by the treatment of 1‐N‐2‐Hydroxy‐l,l‐bis(hydroxymethyl)ethyl]amino]carbonyl]adamantane with bromopropionyl bromide. The resulting initiator was subsequently used in the atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) of methyl methacrylate (MMA) to form (Adm‐p‐MMA), which was successfully used, as a macroinitiator, in further ATRP reactions with 3‐O‐methacryloyl‐1,2 5,6‐di‐O‐isopropylidene‐α‐d ‐glucofuranose (gly), a glycomonomer, to afford the Adm‐p‐MMA‐b‐gly polymer. The new Adm‐p‐MMA‐b‐gly polymer subsequently was employed to form a nanocomposite with chitosan‐modified, Nanofil clay (NC). The resulting Adm‐p‐MMA‐b‐gly/NC composite material was progressively hydrolyzed to regenerate the OH groups of the glucose units within the Adm‐p‐MMA‐b‐gly copolymer. The polymer/NC nanocomposites were characterized by X‐ray diffraction, thermal gravimetric analysis, differential scanning calorimetry, and transmission electron microscopy. POLYM. ENG. SCI., 54:2669–2675, 2014. © 2013 Society of Plastics Engineers |
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