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Chemistry and Industry of Forest Products ›› 2014, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (3): 37-43.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.0253-2417.2014.03.007

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Preparation, Characterization and Properties of Cellulose-g-PHEMA Copolymer by ATRP in Homogeneous Medium

YU Juan YU Juan1, WANG Chun-peng1,2, WANG Ji-fu1,2, CHU Fu-xiang1,2   

  1. 1. Institute of Chemical Industry of Forest Products, CAF;National Engineering Lab. for Biomass Chemical Utilization;Key and Open Lab. of Forest Chemical Engineering, SFA;Key Lab. of Biomass Energy and Material, Jiangsu Province, Nanjing 210042, China;
    2. Research Institute of Forestry New Technology, CAF, Beijing 100091, China
  • Received:2013-06-19 Online:2014-06-25 Published:2014-06-25

Abstract: Cellulose-graft-poly(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate) (cellulose-g-PHEMA) copolymers were prepared by atom-transfer radical polymerization (ATRP). Cellulose macroinitiators with different numbers of initiating sites for ATRP were firstly synthesized by direct acylation of cellulose with 2-bromoisobutyryl bromide in LiCl/dimethylacetamide. Subsequently, ATRP of 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate with cellulose macroinitiators was carried out using CuBr/PMDETA as a catalyst system. Formation of copolymers was confirmed by attenuated total reflectance Fourier transform infrared and GPC.The results of DLS, AFM and TEM also confirmed the synthesis of the grafted copolymer. It showed that the cellulose-g-PHEMA copolymers were easily to be self-assembled in water into spherical micelles with a radius of around 180 nm.

Key words: atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP), graft copolymers, 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate, synthesis CLC number:TQ35

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