Homeotropically aligned self-organizing dendronized polymer

Article abstract of DOI:10.1021/ma502522s

Self-organizing dendronized polymers embody the bottom-up paradigm for the self-assembly of nanostructured materials. The presence of a dendritic side chain on each repeat unit of the linear polymer backbone gives dendronized polymer chains a nanometer-sized diameter, and this dimension can be tailored though the generation number of the dendrons, the peripheral groups on the dendrons, or the branching number of the repeating unit in the dendrons. Self-assembling dendrons with semifluorinated peripheral groups and polymers dendronized via supramolecular interactions with these dendrons have been reported to homeotropically align on glass surfaces. However, most derivatives of these semifluorinated dendrons.