title: A new strategy to synthesize bottlebrushes with a helical polyglutamate backbone via N-carboxyanhydride polymerization and RAFT.
abstract: Polyglutamate bottlebrushes with poly(oligo(ethylene glycol)acrylate) as side chains were successfully prepared for the first time by combination of N-carboxyanhydride polymerization and reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization. This work has provided a metal-free polymerization strategy and can be applicable to synthesize well-defined polypeptide bottlebrushes for bio-application purposes.
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Polymer Ecomaterials, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Renmin Street 5625, Changchun 130022, People's Republic of China. youhua.tao@ciac.ac.cn xhwang@ciac.ac.cn.
authors.forename: Haiwang
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Lai
authors.forename: Xiaoyu
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Qi
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.forename: Zheng
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Bian
authors.forename: Youhua
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tao
authors.forename: Xianhong
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Wang