Supra-Macromolecular Engineering with Orthogonal Molecular Design: Functional Materials with Self-Assembled Macromolecules

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23685024
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (A)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: Polymer chemistry
• Research Institution: Kyoto University
• Principal Investigator: MAKOTO Ouchi 京都大学, 工学(系)研究科(研究院), 准教授 (90394874)
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 高分子合成 / 自己組織化 / ブロック共重合体 / リビング重合 / 開始剤 / モノマー / 超分子 / 相分離

Outline of Final Research Achievements

My purpose in this research is directed toward development of the concept of “supra macromolecular engineering” where structural and function factors are embedded into initiators and monomers to manipulate self-assembling functions of resultant block copolymers. I actually synthesized the following block copolymers to study the self-assembled structures and functions: cleavable block copolymers, supra block copolymers from well-defined polymers carrying complementary multiple hydrogen-bonding sites, ring-based block copolymers, block copolymers involving alternating sequence segment, block copolymers of unique connections.

Free Research Field

高分子化学