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In this work, the synthesis, selective chemical modifications, and self-assembly behavior in aqueous media of a novel poly(2-(dimethylamino)ethyl acrylate) 20 -b-poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) 11 -b-poly(oligo ethylene glycol methyl ether acrylate) 18  (PDMAEA 20 -b-PNIPAM 11 -b-POEGA 18 ) dual-responsive (pH and temperature) and triply hydrophilic amino-based triblock terpolymer are reported. The amine functional triblock terpolymer was synthesized by sequential reversible addition fragmentation chain transfer polymerization (RAFT) polymerization and molecularly characterized by size exclusion chromatography (SEC) and  1 H-NMR spectroscopy that evidenced the success of the three-step polymerization scheme. The tertiary amine pendant groups of the PDMAEA block were chemically modified in order to produce the Q 1 PDMAEA 20 -b-PNIPAM 11 -b-POEGA 18  as well as the Q 6 PDMAEA 20 -b-PNIPAM 11 -b-POEGA 18  quaternized triblock terpolymers (Q 1  and Q 6  prefixes show the number of carbon atoms (C1 and C6) attached on the PDMAEA groups) using methyl iodide (CH 3 I) and 1-iodohexane (C 6 H 13 I) as the quaternizing agents and the SPDMAEA 20 -b-PNIPAM 11 -b-POEGA 18  sulfobetainized triblock terpolymer using 1,3 propanesultone (C 3 H 6 O 3 S) as the sulfobetainization agent. The self-assembly properties of the triblock terpolymers in aqueous solutions upon varying temperature and solution pH were studied by light scattering and fluorescence spectroscopy experiments. The novel triblock terpolymers self-assemble into nanosized aggregates upon solution temperature rise above the nominal lower critical solution temperature (LCST) of the temperature-responsive PNIPAM block. The remarkable stimuli-responsive self-assembly behavior of the novel triblock terpolymers in aqueous media make them interesting candidates for biomedical applications in the fields of drug and gene delivery.

Effects of Chemical Modifications on the Thermoresponsive Behavior of a PDMAEA-b-PNIPAM-b-POEGA Triblock Terpolymer