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Polymers 2012, 4(3), 1399-1415; doi:10.3390/polym4031399

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A Systematic Study on the Self-Assembly Behaviour of Multi Component Fmoc-Amino Acid-Poly(oxazoline) Systems

Pier-Francesco Caponi ^1,*  and Rein V. Ulijn ^2,*

¹ Laboratory of Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry (IOMC), Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Jena 07745, Germany ² WestCHEM/Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G11XL, UK

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Received: 9 May 2012; in revised form: 6 July 2012 / Accepted: 10 July 2012 / Published: 24 July 2012

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Enzymes in Monomer and Polymer Synthesis)

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Abstract: We report a systematic study of a modular approach to create multi-component supramolecular nanostructures that can be tailored to be both enzyme and temperature responsive. Using a straightforward synthetic approach we functionalised a thermal responsive polymer, poly(2-isopropyl-2-oxazoline), with fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl-amino acids that drive the self-assembly. Depending on the properties of appended amino acids, these polymers undergo substantial morphological changes in response to the catalytic action of alkaline phosphatase.

Keywords: responsive polymers; amino acids; enzyme responsive materials

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