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ArticleMacromolecules2026

Supramolecular Assembly of End-Functionalized Polystyrene and Polydimethylsiloxane with Hybrid Nanostructures.

Jingchao Qin, Whitney S Loo

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Article in Macromolecules, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors.

Jingchao QinDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0005-2459-926X
Whitney S LooDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9773-3571

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Blends of oppositely charged polymers are capable of self-assembling into well-ordered nanostructures via supramolecular self-assembly. A series of monosulfonated-terminated polystyrene (PS) and monopiperidine-terminated poly-(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) polymers with different molecular weights were synthesized and blended to investigate their phase behavior. A new synthetic route for piperidine-terminated PDMS with low dispersity and high end-group fidelity was developed based on a functionalized initiator accessible from commercially available reagents and compatible with anionic ring-opening polymerization. The resulting nanostructure of the blends was measured via small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) performed across a range of temperatures and revealed disordered structures in blends prepared with low molecular weight polymers. A model derived by Tanaka using the random phase approximation (RPA) was applied to extract the heteroassociation fraction (

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PMID42007308
PMCPMC13085851

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