Issue 43, 2023

RAFT-synthesis and self-assembly-induced emission of pendant diphenylalanine–tetraphenylethylene copolymers

Abstract

Manipulation of the properties of aggregation-induced emission luminogens (AIEgens) by combining self-assembling motifs has attracted significant interest as a promising approach to developing various advanced materials. In this study, pendant diphenylalanine–tetraphenylethylene (TPE) copolymers exhibiting the ability for self-assembly and AIE properties were synthesized via reversible addition–fragmentation chain-transfer (RAFT) copolymerization. The resulting anionic and non-ionic amphiphilic copolymers with a carbon–carbon main chain bearing diphenylalanine–TPE through-space interactions self-assembled into nanorods and nanofibers, showing blue emissions originating from the aggregation of TPE side chains in the assembled structures. Suitable tuning of the comonomer composition, monomer structure, and environmental conditions (e.g., solvent polarity) enables manipulation of the self-assembled structures, AIE properties, and aggregation-induced circular dichroism by achiral TPE units via through-space interactions with diphenylalanine moieties.

Graphical abstract: RAFT-synthesis and self-assembly-induced emission of pendant diphenylalanine–tetraphenylethylene copolymers

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
27 Jul 2023
Accepted
09 Oct 2023
First published
25 Oct 2023

Soft Matter, 2023,19, 8403-8412

RAFT-synthesis and self-assembly-induced emission of pendant diphenylalanine–tetraphenylethylene copolymers

R. Yonenuma and H. Mori, Soft Matter, 2023, 19, 8403 DOI: 10.1039/D3SM00988B

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