Amphiphilic hyperbranched polymers:synthesis,characterization and selfassembly performance

A series of amphiphilic hyperbranched polymers(AHP-s,the“s”refers to the algebra of AHP)were synthesized by the reaction between hydroxyl-terminated hyperbranched polymers(HBP-s,the“s”refers to the algebra of HBP)and palmitoyl chloride.FTIR,NMR and GPC were used to determine the structure of AHP-s,the results showed that AHP-s exhibits core-shell structure.The thermal properties of polymers were investigated by DSC and TGA.It was found that AHP-2,AHP-3 and AHP-4 display higher thermal stability than AHP-1(AHP-1,AHP-2,AHP-3 and AHP-4 represent the first,second,third and fourth generation AHP,respectively).Furthermore,the self-assembly performance of AHP-s in THF solvent was investigated by TEM and SEM.Finally,the encapsulation capacity of the AHP-s for methyl orange(MO)was explored at different concentrations of AHP-s and pH conditions.It was found that AHP-s is capable of accommodating hydrophilic guest MO.Moreover,the higher generation of AHP-s,the stronger encapsulation capacity obtained.And the encapsulation capacity closely associated with the pH of encapsulation system.

Hyperbranched poly(ether amine)(hPEA)as novel backbone for amphiphilic one-component type-Ⅱ polymeric photoinitiators

To make photoinitiators （PI） to be polymeric and water-soluble is an effective approach to develop the high efficient photoinitiator systems with low-migration, low-toxic and environment-friend. We developed a series of novel amphiphilic hyperhranched polymeric photoinitiators （hPEA-TXs, and hPEA- BPs） by introducing thioxanthone （TX） or benzophenone （BP） moieties into the periphery of the hyperbranched poly（ether amine） （hPEA） comprised of the hydrophilic poly（ethylene oxide） （PEO） short chain and coinitiator amine moieties in the backbone. Compared with their water-soluble low-molecular weight analogues, the resulting hyperbranched polymeric photoinitiators hPEA101-TX, hPEA211-TX, hPEA101-BP and hPEA211-BP could be dissolved very well not only in many organic systems including acrylate monomers, but also in water with high solubility of 10 wt~. The photopolymerization kinetics of water-soluble monomer acrylamide （AM） and three hydrophobic multifunctional acrylate monomers initiated by these hyperbranched photoinitiators were investigated in detail by photo-differential scanning calorimetric （photo-DSC）. Both hPEA-TXs and hPEA-BPs can initiate photopolymerization of AM as efficiently as their low-molecular weight analogues MGA-TX and MGA-BP, respectively. The final double bond conversion （DBC） of oil-soluble monomer hexanediol diacrylate （HDDA） photoinitiated by these hyperbranched photoinitiators can reach as high as 99%. Especially for photopolymerization of multifunctional monomers initiated by these hyperbranched polymeric photoinitiators, the final DBC of trimethylolpropane triacrylate （TMPTA） and pentaerythritol tetraacrylate （PETTA） can reach 80% and 60%, respectively, which is much higher than that of low-molecular weight photoinitiators.