Kinetic analysis of surface-initiated SET-LRP of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)

The single-electron transfer living radical polymerization (SET-LRP) of N-isopropylacrylamide (NIPAM) from silicon wafer modified with an initiator layer composed of 2-bromopropionyl bromide (2-BPB) fragments is described. The amount of Cu(0) generated in situ by the disproportination of Cu(I) to Cu(0) and Cu(II) in the presence of 2,2′-bipyridine (2,2′-bpy) ligand and N,N-dimethylformamide (DMF) solvent at 90 °C is dependent on the ratio of [CuBr]/[CuBr2]. By proper selection of the [CuBr]/[CuBr2] ratio, well-controlled SET-LRP polymerization of NIPAM was observed such that the thickness of the layer consisting of chains grown from the surface increased linearly with the molecular weight of chains polymerized in solution in identical. In addition, the calculation of grafting parameters, including surface coverage, σ (mg/m2); grafting density, Σ (chain/nm2); and average distance between grafting sites, D (nm), from the number-average molecular weight, Mn (g/mol), and ellipsometric thickness, h (nm), values indicated the synthesis of densely grafted poly(NIPAM) films and allowed us to predict a “brush-like” conformation. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem, 2010

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