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Poly(styrene-alt-maleic anhydride) copolymer and poly(styrene-alt-maleic anhydride)-block-poly(styrene) block copolymer with narrow molecular weight distributions were synthesized by nitroxide mediated radical polymerization (NMP) and the anhydride units were selectively converted to thiophene units. The thiophene decorated poly(styrene-alt-maleic anhydride) copolymer was emulsified in water, resulting in rod-like or cylindrical morphologies with diameters ≈ 90 nm while the non-decorated copolymers and thiophene decorated block copolymer resulted in spheres.
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We thank the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) New Opportunities Fund and the NSERC Discovery Grant 288125–09 for funding this work. We would also like to thank Dr. Dmitrii Perepichka for the use of his laboratory and equipment to run the conductivity measurements along with Dr. Brandon Djukic for his help in performing the conductivity measurements. We would also like to thank the Centre for Self-Assembled Chemical Structures (CSACS) for the use of the FT-IR.
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Lessard, B.H., Marić, M. Thiophene decorated block copolymers templated from poly(styrene-alt-maleic anhydride)-block-poly(styrene) one-shot block copolymer: effect of thiophene inclusion on morphology. J Polym Res 23, 40 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10965-016-0931-7
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