123rd General Meeting of the KCS

Type Poster Presentation
Area Polymer Chemistry
Room No. Exhibition Hall 2
Time 4월 19일 (금요일) 11:00~12:30
Code POLY.P-5
Subject Self-assembly of Chiral Amphiphilic Random Copolymer in Aqueous Media
Authors Minjoong Shin, Myungeun Seo*
Graduate School of Nano Science Technology, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
Abstract Amphiphilic random copolymers containing hydrophobic and hydrophilic side chains spontaneously self-assemble in water via hydrophobic interaction into a spherical unimer or multi-chain micelles. We design amphiphilic random copolymers containing a stereocenter in the hydrophobic chain to investigate how molecular chirality can affect the micellar packing in aqueous solution. We synthesize two mirror-imaged hydrophobic monomers and incorporate into the amphiphilic random copolymer via reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) process. Their chiral effects on self-assembly will be discussed based on the dynamic light scattering (DLS), circular dichroism spectroscopy (CD), and small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) analyses.
E-mail mshin87@kaist.ac.kr