Chemical communications (Cambridge, England)
Unimolecular thermometers: core-shell polymer bottlebrushes with solvatochromic responses to temperature.
Chenyou Zhang, Simran D Kerai, Tom Hawtrey, Elizabeth J New, Markus Müllner
Published: 202510.1039/d5cc05770a
Abstract
Core-shell molecular polymer bottlebrushes (MPBs) were designed with a thermoresponsive poly(DEGMA) core and stabilising poly(PEGMA) shell. Solvatochromic fluorophores embedded in the core report polarity changes as it dehydrates and collapses upon h…
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