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Stimuli-responsive hyperbranched poly(amidoamine)s integrated with thermal and pH sensitivity, reducible degradability and intrinsic photoluminescence

Abstract

A series of hyperbranched poly(amidoamine)s (HPAs) were synthesized from the Michael addition copolymerization of tris(2-aminoethyl) amine (TAEA) and two bisacrylamide monomers N,N′-cystamine bisacrylamide (CBA) and N,N′-hexamethylene bisacrylamide (HMBA) at room temperature. The further modification with isobutyric anhydride led to isobutyramide terminated HPA (HPA-C4). 1H NMR and 15N NMR characterizations proved the successful preparation of these polymers. Moreover, beside the contents of TAEA, CBA and HMBA units in the composition, 15N NMR spectrometry could supply more structural information than 1H NMR spectrometry, such as the ratio of different amine groups in polymers, the transformation efficiency of reactive primary and secondary amines into C4 groups. GPC measurements not only gave the information of molecular weight and polydispersity, but also proved that all the HPA-C4s containing disulfide bonds could be degraded after being treated with dithiothreitol (DTT). Turbidimetry measurements showed that HPA-C4s had thermoresponsive property in water. The cloud point temperature (Tcp) of HPA-C4s was pH-dependent. Moreover, DTT could only affect the thermoresponsive property of HPA-C4s containing disulfide bonds due to the induced polymer degradation. Although no traditional fluorophores existed in HPA-C4s, HPA-C4s could emit blue fluorescence centered at ca. 455 nm. The fluorescence intensity was influenced pronouncedly by polymer concentration, pH, oxidizing time.

Graphical abstract: Stimuli-responsive hyperbranched poly(amidoamine)s integrated with thermal and pH sensitivity, reducible degradability and intrinsic photoluminescence

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
27 Nov 2016
Accepted
09 Jan 2017
First published
17 Jan 2017
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

RSC Adv., 2017,7, 5863-5871

Stimuli-responsive hyperbranched poly(amidoamine)s integrated with thermal and pH sensitivity, reducible degradability and intrinsic photoluminescence

C. Zhan, X. Fu, Y. Yao, H. Liu and Y. Chen, RSC Adv., 2017, 7, 5863 DOI: 10.1039/C6RA27390D

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