Amphiphilic fluorosiloxane graft copolymers with a poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) backbone, a hydrophobic fluorosiloxane side-chain and three hydrophilic polyether side-chains were synthesized by hydrosilation reaction in this work. The micellization of amphiphilic graft copolymers in the water/ethanol solvent system was investigated, and vesicles with different size were formed after the self-assembly system was aged for different time.
A series of new amphiphilic poly[methyl(3,3,3-trifluoropropyl)siloxane]-b-poly(ethylene oxide) (PMTFPS-b-PEO) diblock copolymers with different ratios of hydrophobic segment to hydrophilic segment were prepared by coupling reactions of end-functlonal PMTFPS and PEO homopolymers. Copolymers were shown to be well defined and narrow molecular weight distribution (MWD) (1.07-1.3) by characterizations such as gel permeation chromatography (GPC) and ^1H-nudear magnetic resonance (^1H-NMR).
A short-chain triblock copolymer EO9-DMS7-EO9 was synthesized by coupling reaction of allyl-terminated poly(ethylene oxide) and Si-H-terminated poly(dimethylsiloxane). The structure and purity of synthesized copolymer was carefully characterized. Self-assembly behavior of EO9-DMST-EO9 triblock copolymer in water was investigated. And it was found that along with the increase of copolymer concentration, morphology of self-assembled aggregates transits from sphere to rod. A plausible understanding of the morphology transition for the investigated triblock copolymer was proposed.