Abstract
Chemical amplification is a well-established concept in photoresist technology, wherein one photochemical event leads to a cascade of follow-up reactions facilitating a controlled change in the solubility of a polymer. Herein, we transfer this concept to dynamic polymer networks to liberate both catalyst and functional groups required for bond exchange reactions via UV irradiation. For this, we exploit a photochemically-generated acid to catalyse a deprotection reaction of an acid-labile tert-butoxycarbonyl group, which is employed to mask the hydroxy groups of a vinyl monomer. At the same time, the released acid serves as a catalyst for thermo-activated transesterifications between the deprotected hydroxyl and ester moieties. Introduced in an orthogonally-cured (450 nm) thiol-click photopolymer, this approach allows for a spatio-temporally controlled activation of bond exchange reactions, which is crucial in light of the creep resistance vs reflow ability trade-off of dynamic polymer networks.
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