Surface-Grafted Conjugated Polymers for Hybrid Cellulose Materials

• Conjugated polymers were grafted onto cellulose substrates in an effort to create a general method for the synthesis of conjugated polymer/cellulose hybrid materials. In this report, we describe the grafting of poly(fluorene), poly(fluorenevinylene), and a poly(fluorene-ethynylene-phenylene) onto modified cellulose paper substrates using Suzuki, Heck, and Sonogashira-type polymerizations, respectively. The application of these three widely used coupling chemistries to surface-grafted conjugated polymers on cellulose provides a general route to cellulose-based hybrid materials tunable with almost any aromatic repeat structure for specific applications.

Subject headings

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Kemi (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Chemical Sciences (hsv//eng)

Keyword

conjugated polymer

graft copolymers

polymer brush

semiconducting polymers

step-growth polymerization

surfaces

Chemistry

Kemi

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ref (subject category)

art (subject category)