Aldol group transfer polymerization for grafting from cadmium selenide nanoparticles

PMSE 5

Hemali Rathnayake, hrathnay@polysci.umass.edu, Ravisubhash Tangirala, ravi@mail.pse.umass.edu, Qingling Zhang, and Todd Emrick. Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts, 120 Governors Drive, Amherst, MA 01003
Aldol group transfer polymerization, discovered in the 1980's by Webster and Sogah at DuPont Central Research, is applied in this work to the preparation of quantum dot-poly(vinyl alcohol) nanocomposites. Benzyaldehyde-covered quantum dots were prepared and used as macroinitiators with vinyloxytrialkylsilane monomers, under Lewis acid mediated conditions, to give the desired poly(vinyl alcohol)-covered quantum dots.
 

Synthesis and Self-Assembly Approaches to Polymer-Inorganic Hybrid Nanoparticles
8:30 AM-12:05 PM, Sunday, April 6, 2008 Hilton New Orleans Riverside -- Grand Salon 24, Oral

Division of Polymeric Materials: Science & Engineering

The 235th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, April 6-10, 2008