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Association behaviors of poly(N-vinylpyrrolidone)-grafted fullerenes in aqueous solution

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Poly(N-vinylpyrrolidone) (PVP)-grafted fullerenes (PVP-C60 and PVP-C70) were synthesized by iniferter polymerization in order to fabricate water-soluble fullerene containing micelles. PVP-C60 formed micelles with hydrodynamic diameters ranging from 15 to 33 nm. The solubilization of fullerene molecules into the core of the PVP-C60 micelles was also found to control the size of the micelles. By increasing the amount of added fullerene, we gradually increased the micelle size before drastically increasing it to that of 200 nm in hydrodynamic diameter. The drastic change occurred at a critical value of the added C60/PVP monomer ratio, almost independently of the molecular weight of PVP.

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Acknowledgments

We are greatly thankful to Prof. Kohji Yoshinaga (Professor Emeritus of Kyushu Institute of Technology) for his advice on the experiments, especially for the synthesis of the samples. We express our appreciation to Prof. Masato Yamamura (Kyushu Institute of Technology) for the help with the surface tension measurements. We also thank Dr. Tsuyoshi Takakura (Mitsubishi Chemical) for valuable comments regarding fullerenes. We are sincerely grateful to Dr. Suguru Motokucho (Nagasaki Univ.), Mr. Noboru Wakayama, and Mr. Masumi Kunisue (Kyushu Institute of Technology) for helping us with the GPC, TEM, and NMR, respectively. This work was financially supported by a grant-in-aid from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (nos. 19750099 and 24850015).

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Mouri, E., Moroi, S. Association behaviors of poly(N-vinylpyrrolidone)-grafted fullerenes in aqueous solution. J Polym Res 25, 213 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10965-018-1604-5

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