Optical and Morphological Characteristics of Polymer Molecular Brushes with Varied Grafting Density and Binary Bioactive Radachlorine-Containing Nanosystems Based on Them

Abstract

The optical and morphological characteristics of polymer molecular brushes with the polyimide backbone and polymethacrylic acid side chains, and also of binary nanosystems based on the molecular brushes and Radachlorine®, a photosensitizer of second generation, were studied. The brushes had the same backbone and approximately equal molecular mass of side chains, but strongly differed in the side chain grafting density. The side chain grafting density influences the molecular-conformation and morphological parameters of free molecular brushes and of the corresponding binary nanosystems.