Collapse of telechelic star polymers to watermelon structures.

A triple carboxylic acid-functionalized RAFT agent platform for the elaboration of well-defined telechelic 3-arm star PDMAc.

This communication describes the synthesis of a triple acid-functionalized RAFT agent and its use to prepare well-defined 3-arm star polymers of N,N-dimethylacrylamide (DMAc). A simple esterification reaction allowed the convenient integration of three electron-rich naphthalene recognition units on the RAFT agent platform and subsequently the elaboration of a naphthalene end-decorated telecheli...

Telechelic star polymers as self-assembling units from the molecular to the macroscopic scale.

By means of multiscale molecular simulations, we show that telechelic-star polymers are a simple, robust, and tunable system, which hierarchically self-assembles into soft-patchy particles and mechanically stabilizes selected, open crystalline structures. The self-aggregating patchy behavior can be fully controlled by the number of arms per star and by the fraction of attractive monomeric units...

Telechelic star polymer-microemulsion networks: Structure and Dynamics

Surface forces between telechelic brushes revisited: the origin of a weak attraction.

Telechelic polymers are useful for surface protection and stabilization of colloidal dispersions by the formation of polymer brushes. A number of theoretical investigations have been reported on a weak attraction between two telechelic brushes when they are at the classical contact, i.e., when the surface separation is approximately equal to the summation of the brush thicknesses. While recent ...

End–Functionalized Polymers: Versatile Building Blocks for Soft Materials

We present a concise review of telechelic polymers of various architectures, focusing on the structure, solute solvent interactions, aggregation processes, equilibrium and dynamical properties and applications. Telechelics are macromolecules with functionalized, mutually attractive endgroups, which assume a variety of conformations that depend on solvent quality, salinity and pH of the solvent,...