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Fluorescent Patterns by Selective Grafting of a Telechelic Polymer.

ABSTRACT: The preparation of patterned ultrathin films (sub-10 nm) composed of end-anchored fluorescently labeled poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) is presented. Telechelic PMMA was synthesized utilizing activator regenerated by electron transfer atom transfer radical polymerization and consecutively end-functionalized with alkynylated fluorescein by Cu-catalyzed azide-alkyne cycloaddition (CuAAC) "click" chemistry. The polymers were grafted via the ?-carboxyl groups to silica or glass substrates pretreated with (3-aminopropyl)triethoxysilane (APTES). Patterned surfaces were prepared by inkjet printing of APTES onto glass substrates and selectively grafted with fluorescently end-labeled PMMA to obtain emissive arrays on the surface.

SUBMITTER: Kopec M

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6433164 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Fluorescent Patterns by Selective Grafting of a Telechelic Polymer.

Kopeć Maciej M Tas Sinem S Cirelli Marco M van der Pol Rianne R de Vries Ilse I Vancso G Julius GJ de Beer Sissi S

ACS applied polymer materials 20190118 2

The preparation of patterned ultrathin films (sub-10 nm) composed of end-anchored fluorescently labeled poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) is presented. Telechelic PMMA was synthesized utilizing activator regenerated by electron transfer atom transfer radical polymerization and consecutively end-functionalized with alkynylated fluorescein by Cu-catalyzed azide-alkyne cycloaddition (CuAAC) "click" chemistry. The polymers were grafted via the α-carboxyl groups to silica or glass substrates pretreate ...[more]

PMID: 30923796

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