A facile avenue to conductive polymer brushes via cyclopentadiene-maleimide Diels-Alder ligation.
Cyclopentadienyl end-capped poly(3-hexylthiophene) was employed to fabricate conductive surface tethered polymer brushes via a facile route based on cyclopentadiene-maleimide Diels-Alder ligation. The efficient nature of the Diels-Alder ligation was further combined with a biomimetic polydopamine-assisted functionalization of surfaces, making it an access route of choice for P3HT surface immobilization.
Preparative Macromolecular Chemistry, Institut für Technische Chemie und Polymerchemie, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Engesserstr. 18, 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany. christopher.barner-kowollik@kit.edu.
Basit
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Yameen
Cesar
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Rodriguez-Emmenegger
Corinna M
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Preuss
Ognen
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Pop-Georgievski
Elisseos
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Verveniotis
Vanessa
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Trouillet
Bohuslav
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Rezek
Christopher
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Barner-Kowollik
D061565:Cycloaddition Reaction; D003517:Cyclopentanes / Q000737:chemistry*; D007211:Indoles / Q000737:chemistry; D008301:Maleimides / Q000737:chemistry*; D011108:Polymers / Q000737:chemistry*; D013499:Surface Properties; D013876:Thiophenes / Q000737:chemistry*
D003517:Cyclopentanes; D007211:Indoles; D008301:Maleimides; D011108:Polymers; D013876:Thiophenes; C507295:poly(3-hexylthiophene); C568283:polydopamine; C043592:maleimide