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Boronic Acid Homopolymers as Effective Polycations for Sugar-Responsive Layer-by-Layer Assemblies
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2019-05-01Registro en:
Acs Applied Polymer Materials. Washington: Amer Chemical Soc, v. 1, n. 5, p. 990-996, 2019.
10.1021/acsapm.9b00017
WOS:000476966900010
Autor
Dublin City Univ
Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar)
Trinity Coll Dublin
Univ Coll Dublin
Institución
Resumen
Owed to their reversible diol-binding ability, phenylboronic acid (BA) derivatives have gained considerable interest for the development of saccharide sensors and drug delivery systems. In particular, BA-containing polymers have been used for the realization of sugar-responsive layer-by-layer (LbL) films. Herein, a LbL system based on cationic BA-homopolymers (PBA) is presented, and its subsequent sugar-induced disassembly is described. The BA-linear polymers (PBA) were intercalated with poly(vinylsulfonic acid, sodium salt) to form (PBA/PVS)(n) film assemblies. Different orientations of the boronic acid substituent (ortho-, meta-, and para-) in the PBA polymer were investigated for their influence on the LbL assembly. The rate of disassembly in the presence of glucose or fructose was analyzed by UV-vis spectroscopy. Additionally, the PVS component was replaced with an anionic fluorophore, pyranine (PYR), which allowed the assembly and disassembly to be monitored by fluorescence.