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US 11,739,178 B2Granted
Nanohoop-functionalized polymer embodiments and methods of making and using the same
AssigneeUniversity of Oregon
InventorsRamesh Jasti, Ruth Maust, Penghao Li
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Abstract
Disclosed herein are embodiments of a nanohoop-functionalized polymer and methods of making and using the same. In particular embodiments, polymer comprises one or more nanohoops that extend from the polymer backbone. Also disclosed herein are polymerizable nanohoop monomer embodiments that can be used to make the polymer embodiments disclosed herein.
Claims16
A polymer having a structure according to Formula I
- wherein PB is a polymer backbone;
- TG is a terminating group;
- the optional linker is selected from aliphatic, heteroaliphatic, haloaliphatic, haloheteroaliphatic, aromatic, or an organic functional group;
- the nanohoop comprises six or more aromatic ring systems, wherein each aromatic ring is directly bound to at least two other rings of the nanohoop by two separate single covalent bonds positioned para, ortho, or meta relative to one another, and wherein the nanohoop is not linearly conjugated with the PB;
- m is an integer ranging from two or greater;
- and q is an integer selected from 1 or 2.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.