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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
16
pubmed:dateCreated
2008-8-14
pubmed:abstractText
The dimensions and intermolecular interactions of a surface-grafted and unbound free polyampholyte, poly(2-methacryloyloxyethyl phosphorylcholine) (PMPC), were estimated in aqueous solutions with various ionic strengths. Free linear PMPC was synthesized by atom-transfer radical polymerization (ATRP), and static light scattering (SLS) and dynamic light scattering (DLS) were carried out for the PMPC solutions with various concentrations of NaCl, c s. The hydrodynamic radius R H and the second virial coefficient A 2 of PMPC were independent of c s (0-0.5 M), though both R H and A 2 of polyampholytes usually strongly depend on the ionic strength. PMPC-immobilized silica nanoparticles (PMPC-SiNP) were also synthesized by surface-initiated ATRP, and DLS was carried out as for the solutions of linear PMPC to investigate the dependence of the dimensions of PMPC immobilized on a solid surface on the ionic strength. The molecular weight and surface density of PMPC immobilized on SiNP were estimated from the results obtained by GPC, NMR, and thermogravimetric analysis. The independence of R H of PMPC-SiNP was also observed, but its magnitude was larger than that of linear PMPC, although the molecular weight of PMPC immobilized on SiNP was smaller than that of linear PMPC. The larger dimension of PMPC immobilized on SiNP was explained by the excluded volume effect between the immobilized polymer chains.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
0743-7463
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
19
pubmed:volume
24
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
8772-8
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2008
pubmed:articleTitle
Dimensions of a free linear polymer and polymer immobilized on silica nanoparticles of a zwitterionic polymer in aqueous solutions with various ionic strengths.
pubmed:affiliation
Institute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka Nishi-ku Fukuoka, Japan.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't