Bottlebrush polymers and uses thereof
AssigneeMassachusetts Institute of Technology
InventorsJeremiah A. Johnson, Ken Kawamoto, Mingjiang Zhong
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AssigneeMassachusetts Institute of Technology
InventorsJeremiah A. Johnson, Ken Kawamoto, Mingjiang Zhong
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Provided are new bottlebrush polymers and diblock bottlebrush copolymers, which can self-assemble into structures of desired morphology (e.g., hexagonal cylindrical, gyroid). The self-assembled structures of the bottlebrush polymers and copolymers provide useful materials such as photonics (e.g., photonic crystals), functional materials, chromatography media, stimuli-responsive materials, lubricants, nanolithography, films, and coatings. In certain embodiments, the backbone repeating units of the bottlebrush polymers and copolymers have two different polymeric sidechains covalently attached to the backbone repeating unit through a branched linker, wherein one of the polymeric sidechain is a polysiloxane. Also provided are methods of preparing the bottlebrush polymers and copolymers described herein.
A bottlebrush polymer comprising a backbone of repeating units covalently linked to polymeric sidechains, wherein each repeating unit is linked to at least two different polymeric sidechains;
A bottlebrush polymer, wherein the bottlebrush polymer is of Formula (I):
A bottlebrush copolymer comprising a backbone of repeating units covalently linked to polymeric sidechains;
A bottlebrush polymer, wherein the bottlebrush polymer is of Formula (I):
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