Azzam Firas, Siqueira Eder, Fort Sébastien, Hassaini Roumaïssa, Pignon Frédéric, Travelet Christophe, Putaux Jean-Luc, Jean Bruno
Université Grenoble Alpes , Centre de Recherches sur les Macromolécules Végétales (CERMAV), F-38000 Grenoble, France.
CNRS, CERMAV, F-38000 Grenoble, France.
Biomacromolecules. 2016 Jun 13;17(6):2112-9. doi: 10.1021/acs.biomac.6b00344. Epub 2016 May 5.
The colloidal stability together with the tunable aggregation and viscoelastic properties of thermoresponsive polymer-grafted cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) were investigated. TEMPO oxidation of CNCs followed by peptidic coupling in water were used to covalently graft thermosensitive Jeffamine polyetheramine M2005 chains onto the surface of CNCs. The resulting polymer-decorated particles (M2005-g-CNCs) exhibited new colloidal properties, by their ability to perfectly redisperse in water and organic solvents such as toluene, dichloromethane or DMF after freeze-drying. In addition, they presented an enhanced thermal stability when compared to that of sulfated or TEMPO-oxidized CNCs. Dynamic light scattering experiments were used to demonstrate that the thermally induced aggregation of M2005-g-CNCs was fully reversible and reproducible over many temperature cycles and that, most interestingly, the aggregation number could be tuned by varying the ionic strength and/or the pH of the medium, making the suspension multiresponsive. This property arises from the variations of the sign (attractive or repulsive) and the range of the different types (entropic, electrostatic, hydrophobic) of interaction forces between the thermosensitive polymer-decorated nanoparticles. The variation of the viscoelastic properties of M2005-g-CNCs suspensions as a function of temperature, probed by oscillatory rheology measurements of more concentrated suspensions, revealed a reversible temperature-triggered liquid-to-gel transition. Such enhanced functionalities pave the way to the design of advanced CNC-based materials benefiting both from the intrinsic characteristics of these biosourced particles and the new properties imparted by the stimuli-sensitive grafted chains.
研究了热响应性聚合物接枝纤维素纳米晶体(CNCs)的胶体稳定性以及可调的聚集和粘弹性。通过对CNCs进行TEMPO氧化,然后在水中进行肽偶联,将热敏性Jeffamine聚醚胺M2005链共价接枝到CNCs表面。所得的聚合物修饰颗粒(M2005-g-CNCs)表现出了新的胶体性质,冻干后它们能够完美地重新分散在水和甲苯、二氯甲烷或N,N-二甲基甲酰胺等有机溶剂中。此外,与硫酸化或TEMPO氧化的CNCs相比,它们具有更高的热稳定性。动态光散射实验表明,M2005-g-CNCs的热诱导聚集在多个温度循环中是完全可逆且可重复的,而且最有趣的是,聚集数可以通过改变介质的离子强度和/或pH值进行调节,使悬浮液具有多重响应性。这种性质源于热敏性聚合物修饰纳米颗粒之间不同类型(熵力、静电力、疏水力)相互作用力的符号(吸引或排斥)和范围的变化。通过对更浓悬浮液进行振荡流变学测量,研究了M2005-g-CNCs悬浮液的粘弹性随温度的变化,结果显示出可逆的温度触发液-凝胶转变。这些增强的功能为设计先进的基于CNC的材料铺平了道路,这些材料既受益于这些生物源颗粒的固有特性,又受益于刺激敏感接枝链赋予的新性质。