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Design and Implementation of a Reactor Setup for Combinatorial Anionic Synthesis of Block Copolymer Series with Well‐Defined Compositions
Author(s) -
Pettau Robin,
Erdelen Christian,
Schmidt HansWerner
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
macromolecular reaction engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.37
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1862-8338
pISSN - 1862-832X
DOI - 10.1002/mren.200900037
Subject(s) - copolymer , block (permutation group theory) , series (stratigraphy) , polymerization , materials science , polymer chemistry , anionic addition polymerization , chemistry , computer science , chemical engineering , mathematics , polymer , engineering , combinatorics , composite material , paleontology , biology
We present a combinatorial approach to the synthesis of block copolymer series by anionic polymerization, utilizing a specially designed reactor setup. The setup features one main reactor and three secondary reactors to carry out anionic polymerizations on laboratory‐scale quantities at low temperatures. The implementation was demonstrated with three series of AB‐ and ABC‐block copolymers with identical A‐ and AB‐blocks, respectively. The B‐block in AB‐diblock copolymers and the C‐block in ABC‐triblock copolymers can be varied with respect to block length or chemical constitution. Well‐defined series of block copolymers are useful for advanced optimization of functional block copolymers in nanotechnology applications.