화학공학소재연구정보센터
Langmuir, Vol.30, No.41, 12297-12305, 2014
Tailoring the Hydrophilic/Lipophilic Balance of Clickable Mesoporous Organosilicas by the Copper-Catalyzed Azide Alkyne Cycloaddition Click-Functionalization
We have designed and synthesized a clickable bridged silsesquioxane material featuring pendant alkyne chains as an aggregate of golf-ball-like nanoparticles, as evidenced by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and small- and wide-angle X-ray scattering (SWAXS). Using the copper-catalyzed azide-alkyne cycloaddition reaction with a range of organic azides of variable characteristics, we transformed this parent bridged silsesquioxane into new materials with tunable hydrophilic/lipophilic balance in high conversions while preserving the original morphology. N-2, cyclohexane, and water sorption experiments were used to quantify the affinity of these materials toward the sorbates through the determination of their Henry's constants. This resulted in the following hydrophilic scale: M-OH > M-PEG > M-C6 > M-Ph > M-F > M-C16, which was mostly confirmed by SWAXS measurements.