Direct Immobilization of Living Poly(2-ethyl-2-oxazoline) Chains onto Mesoporous Silica: A Simplified Grafting-To Strategy for Hybrid Organic–Inorganic Materials
Marcelina Bochenek, Margarita Popova, Natalia Oleszko-Torbus, Agnieszka Kowalczuk, Alicja Utrata-Wesołek, Violeta Mitova, Neli Koseva, Elżbieta Grządka, Jolanta Orzeł, Barbara Mendrek · 2026
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Marcelina Bochenek and co-authors present a study dated 2026 on attaching polymer chains to porous silica in one simple step. Hybrid materials of silica and polymer serve in medicine and catalysis, but grafting the polymer usually needs fiddly chemistry. Their trick: let still-growing polymer chains end directly on amino groups fixed to the silica surface.
Two chain lengths of the polymer, a polyoxazoline, were grown and then anchored this way. A battery of tests, from infrared spectra to electron microscopy and gas adsorption, confirmed the chains were truly bonded. The silica kept its ordered pore structure after coating. The authors present the route as a shortcut around both end-group preparation and surface-started growth.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Marcelina Bochenek, Margarita Popova, Natalia Oleszko-Torbus, Agnieszka Kowalczuk, Alicja Utrata-Wesołek, Violeta Mitova, Neli Koseva, Elżbieta Grządka, Jolanta Orzeł, Barbara Mendrek |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 32 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |