Application of Living Ionic Polymerization Reactions to the design of Functional NanoObjects

An important challenge in polymer-based advanced materials aimed at the fabrication of individualized functional molecular objects exhibiting specific and well-defined properties. The strategy developed in our group involves the construction of single giant highly branched macromolecules with controlled architecture and topology. Our presentation will be focused on the design of a series of comb copolymers with (a) PS-PI diblock branches, (b) randomly distributed PS and PI branches and janus type PS-comb-b-PI-comb diblocks. Their synthesis and a study of their behavior in solution and in bulk will be described.