Block polymers hydrogen bonding units

In addition to utilizing natural ODNs in block copolymers, ODN mimics have also been studied using polymers with the capability of forming hydrogen bonds. Bazzi and colleagues (Bazzi and Sleiman 2002 Bazzi et al. 2003) have reported diblock and triblock amphiphilic polymers with diamidopyridine (DAP) and dicarboximide moieties as molecular recognition units and studied their micelle formation properties (Chart 2.4). 

The self assembly of polymers in the solid state, using polystyrene scaffolds with pendant 2,6-diamino-pyridine (DAP) units has been extensively described by Rotello et al. [224] (Sect. 3.3). Two different polymers were investigated either a homopolymer, functionalized with the pendant DAP units, or a PS-PS diblock copolymer, in which one block only was functionalized with the DPA units via a p-chloromethylstyrene block (Fig. 67). In order to study the effect exerted by the hydrogen-bonding moieties onto the microphase separation, a series of polymers with different fractions of... 

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