Design and Implementation of a Reactor Setup for Combinatorial Anionic Synthesis of Block Copolymer Series with well-defined Compositions

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Pettau, Robin ; Erdelen, Christian H. ; Schmidt, Hans-Werner:
Design and Implementation of a Reactor Setup for Combinatorial Anionic Synthesis of Block Copolymer Series with well-defined Compositions.
In: Macromolecular Reaction Engineering. Vol. 4 (January 2010) Issue 1 . - pp. 65-72.
ISSN 1862-8338
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/mren.200900037

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We present a combinatorial approach to the synthesis of block copolymer series by anionic polymerization, utilizing a specially designed reactor setup. The setup features one main reactor and three secondary reactors to carry out anionic polymerizations on laboratory-scale quantities at low temperatures. The implementation was demonstrated with three series of AB- and ABC-block copolymers with identical A- and AB-blocks, respectively. The B-block in AB-diblock copolymers and the C-block in ABC-triblock copolymers can be varied with respect to block length or chemical constitution. Well-defined series of block copolymers are useful for advanced optimization of functional block copolymers in nanotechnology applications.