@article {47384,
	title = {Facile access to functional polyacrylates with dual stimuli response and tunable surface hydrophobicity},
	journal = {Polymer Chemistry},
	volume = {12},
	year = {2021},
	month = {MAY },
	pages = {3042-3051},
	type = {Article},
	abstract = {<p>Magnetically separable and reusable Ni-Co alloy nanoparticles were employed to achieve ambient temperature reversible deactivation radical polymerization (RDRP) of methyl acrylate (MA), for the first time, yielding well-defined PMA (at least up to 124 500 g mol(-1)) with a low dispersity (D \&lt;= 1.20). The controlled polymerization character of RDRP of MA was confirmed from the linear semilogarithmic plot exhibiting pseudo first order kinetics, a linear increase of the molecular weight of the polymer with monomer conversion maintaining low D and the synthesis of PMAs of varying molecular weights from 2200 to 124 500 g mol(-1) with low D. In addition, linear PMA-Br was used as a macroinitiator for the synthesis of several well-defined PMA-b-poly(M) block copolymers (where {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}M{\textquoteright}{\textquoteright} stands for (2-dimethylamino)ethyl methacrylate (DMAEMA), tert-butyl methylacrylate (TBMA) and 2,2,3,3,4,4,5,5-octafluoropentyl acrylate (OFPA)), with acceptable Ds (\&lt;= 1.24), demonstrating the high chain-end fidelity of the macroinitiator. The synthesized PMA-b-PDMAEMA demonstrated dual pH- and thermo-responsive properties. Upon hydrolysis, the synthesized PMA-b-PTBMA leads to the formation of unprecedented carboxylic acid-functionalized PMA derivatives. PMA-b-POFPA copolymers with varying OFPA mol\% in the copolymer led to polymers with tunable surface hydrophobicity, as revealed by the water contact angle measurements.</p>},
	issn = {1759-9954},
	doi = {10.1039/d1py00378j, Early Access Date = APR 2021},
	author = {Mohammad, Sk Arif and Dolui, Subrata and Kumar, Devendra and Mane, Shivshankar R. and Banerjee, Sanjib}
}
