@article { ISI:000240085700003,
	title = {Synthesis and characterization of novel hydrophobically end-capped poly(ethylene oxide)s [PEOs]},
	journal = {Macromolecular Symposia},
	volume = {241},
	year = {2006},
	note = {Indo-French Symposium on Fibrillar Networks as Advanced Materials, Inst Charles Sadron, Strasbourg, FRANCE, SEP 21-23, 2005},
	month = {JUL},
	pages = {9-13},
	publisher = {Indo-French Ctr Promot Adv Res; Indian Assoc Cultivat Sci; Kolkata; GUENET; CNRS},
	type = {Article},
	address = {PO BOX 10 11 61, D-69451 WEINHEIM, GERMANY},
	abstract = {<p>We report on the synthesis and characterization of a novel hydrophobically modified end-capped poly(ethylene oxide)s. The end-capping agent of this polymer was designed and synthesised from a renewable resource material namely, gallic acid (i.e. 3,4,5-trihydroxybenzoic acid), the byproduct of tannin industry. The hydroxyl groups at 3, 4 and 5 positions of gallic acid provide an opportunity for varying the hydrophobicity of the compound. The hydrophobic end-capping compound, 3,4,5tridodecyloxy bezoylazide was prepared from gallic acid and PEGS with different chain lengths (of number average molecular weights, 10000 and 35000 g/mol) were endcapped. using 3,4,5-tridodecyloxybenzoyl azide. The quantitative analysis of end-capping in the polymers was demonstrated by H-1-NMR spectroscopy and the rheological studies were carried out in the surfactant solutions.</p>},
	keywords = {end-capped PEOs, hydrophobically modified polymers, water-soluble polymers},
	issn = {1022-1360},
	doi = {10.1002/masy.200650902},
	author = {Badiger, Manohar V. and Kadam, Vijay S. and Lele, Ashish K. and Wadgaonkar, P. P. and Hourdet, Dominique}
}
