POLY 442 |
| Amphiphilic conetworks, generally considered as hydrophilic/hydrophobic materials, are recently gaining great interest due their wide range of possible applications in catalysis, sensors, and biomedical applications. However, little is known about conetworks with highly fluorinated phases. Here, we describe two readily available methods that allow the synthesis of nanophase separated hydrophobic/fluorophilic and hydrophilic/fluorophilic conetworks. The potential of the hydrophilic/fluorophilic conetworks as phase transfer matrix for reactions in supercritical CO2, was examine by loading the conetworks with lipase from Rhizomucor miehei. These systems showed an increased activity of the enzyme in supercritical CO2 by a factor of 42 compared to conventional enzyme powder. |
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Biocatalysis in Polymer Science
6:00 PM-8:00 PM, Tuesday, 12 September 2006 Moscone Center -- Hall D, Poster
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Division of Polymer Chemistry |