Preparation of Polymeric Nanoscale Networks form Cylindrical Molecular Bottlebrushes

Dingcai Wu, Alper Nese, Joanna Pietrasik, Yeru Liang, Hongkun He, Michal Kruk, Liang Huang, Tomasz Kowalewske, and Krzystof Matyjaszewski

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/nn302096d#fig1

The authors prepared polymeric networks using cylindrical bottlebrushes with polystyrene sidechains. The polystyrene chains were crosslinked using Friedel-Crafts chemistry. The resulting networks showed both macropores and nanofibrous regions as seen by TEM.