Synthesis and Bond-Dynamics of Pseudo-BlockCopolymers

• Applicants: Professor Dr. Wolfgang Binder; Professor Dr. Thomas Thurn-Albrecht
• Subject Area: Preparatory and Physical Chemistry of Polymers
• Term: from 2010 to 2014
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 163842554

• Final Report Year: 2016

Final Report Abstract

Within this project, we demonstrate that the synthesis of a library of supramolecular polymer architectures and the interplay of phase segregation and H-bonding clusters of a library of polymers in both, solution and the solid state, results in a large variety of functional structures, putting the picture of always selectively interacting H-bonds in the sense of “key/lock”-bonds into a broader context. Whereas in solution often the specific H-bonding association is dominating over segregation-effects thus generating the expected key/lock-interaction, especially in solid polymers the opposite effects are observed, leading to non-specific interaction between the hydrogen-bonds, and in consequence to their clustering and aggregation. These effects allow the design of micro-phase segregated self-healing materials, multicompartimentized micelles, and micellar clusters with dynamic properties. Especially the design of materials with self-healing properties can be accomplished, where stress and mechanical deformation is taken up by dynamic clusters made from hydrogen bonds, directly responding by clusterreorganization and material-recovery via autonomous healing.

Publications

• Hierarchically Nanostructured Polyisobutylene-Based Ionic Liquids. Macromolecules. 2012, 45, 2074-2084
  Zare, P.; Stojanovic, A.; Herbst, F.; Akbarzadeh, J.; Peterlik, H.; Binder, W. H.
  
• Comparing solution and melt-state association of hydrogen bonds in supramolecular polymers. Polym. Chem. 2013, 4, 3602-3609
  Herbst, F.; Binder, W. H.
  
• Crystallization of Supramolecular Pseudoblock Copolymers. Macromolecules. 2013, 46, 4481-4490
  Ostas, E.; Yan, T.; Thurn-Albrecht, T.; Binder, W. H.
  
• Designing melt flow of poly(isobutylene)-based ionic liquids. J. Mater. Chem. A 2013, 1, 12159-12169
  Stojanovic, A.; Appiah, C.; Dohler, D.; Akbarzadeh, J.; Zare, P.; Peterlik, H.; Binder, W. H.
  
• Facile preparation of supramolecular (ABAC)n multiblock copolymers from Hamilton wedge and barbiturate-functionalized RAFT agents. Polym. Chem. 2014, 5, 2891-2900
  Chen, S.; Deng, Y.; Chang, X.; Barqawi, H.; Schulz, M.; Binder, W. H.
  
• Nanostructure and Rheology of Hydrogen-Bonding Telechelic Polymers in the Melt: From Micellar Liquids and Solids to Supramolecular Gels. Macromolecules. 2014, 47, 2122-2130
  Yan, T.; Schröter, K.; Herbst, F.; Binder, W. H.; Thurn-Albrecht, T.
  
• One-pot synthesis and selfassembly of supramolecular dendritic polymers. Polym. Chem. 2015, 6, 7988-7994
  Chen, S.; Schulz, M.; Lechner, B.-D.; Appiah, C.; Binder, W. H.
  
• Orthogonal Modification of Polymers via Thio–Bromo “Click” Reaction and Supramolecular Chemistry: An Easy Method Toward Head-to-Tail Self-Assembled Supramolecular Polymers. ACS Macro Lett. 2015, 4, 48-52
  Chen, S.; Ströhl, D.; Binder, W. H.
  
• Self-Healing Materials from V- and H- Shaped Supramolecular Architectures. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 10188-10192
  Chen, S.; Mahmood, N.; Beiner, M.; Binder, W. H.
  
• Dynamic Ordering and Phase Segregation in Hydrogen-Bonded Polymers . Acc. Chem. Res. 2016
  Chen, S.; Binder, W. H.
  
• Hierarchical Micelles via Polyphilic Interactions: Hydrogen-Bonded Supramolecular Dendrons and Double Immiscible Polymers. Nano Lett. 2016, 16, 1491-1496
  Chen, S.; Lechner, B.-D.; Meister, A.; Binder, W. H.