Abstract

A novel difunctional alkoxyamine initiator, DEPN2, was synthesized and utilized as an efficient initiator in nitroxide-mediated controlled radical polymerization of triblock copolymers. Complementary hydrogen-bonding triblock copolymers containing adenine (A) and thymine (T) nucleobase-functionalized outer blocks were synthesized. These thermoplastic elastomeric block copolymers contained short nucleobase-functionalized outer blocks (Mn ∼ 1K−4K) and n-butyl acrylate rubber blocks of variable length (Mn ∼ 14K−70K). Hydrogen-bonding interactions were observed for blends of the complementary nucleobase-functionalized block copolymers in terms of increased specific viscosity as well as higher scaling exponents for specific viscosity as a function of solution concentration. In the solid state, the blends exhibited evidence of a complementary A−T hard phase, which formed upon annealing, and dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA) revealed higher softening temperatures. Morphological development of the block copolymer...

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