Issue 3, 2020
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Polymer Chemistry

Surface-grafted polyacrylonitrile brushes with aggregation-induced emission properties†

Maciej Kopeć, ORCID logo *ab   Marcin Pikielac  and  G. Julius Vancso ORCID logo a  

* Corresponding authors

a Materials Science and Technology of Polymers, MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands

b Department of Chemistry, University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath BA2 7AY, UK
E-mail: mk2297@bath.ac.uk

c Faculty of Chemistry, Lodz University of Technology, Wroblewskiego 15, 93-590 Lodz, Poland

Abstract

Polyacrylonitrile (PAN) was synthesized and grafted from silicon wafers by copper-mediated photoinduced atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) using α-bromophenyl acetic acid-based initiators. Aggregation-induced photonic emission (AIE) was observed in well-defined, low molecular weight (Mn < 10k) bulk PAN as well as in thin (d < 15 nm), surface-grafted polymer brushes.

Graphical abstract: Surface-grafted polyacrylonitrile brushes with aggregation-induced emission properties

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C9PY01213C
Article type
Communication
Submitted
12 Aug. 2019
Accepted
06 Dec. 2019
First published
09 Dec. 2019
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

Polym. Chem., 2020,11, 669-674

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Surface-grafted polyacrylonitrile brushes with aggregation-induced emission properties

M. Kopeć, M. Pikiel and G. J. Vancso, Polym. Chem., 2020, 11, 669 DOI: 10.1039/C9PY01213C

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