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Georgiou PG, Kinney NLH, Kontopoulou I, Baker AN, Hindmarsh SA, Bissoyi A, Congdon TR, Whale TF, Gibson MI. Poly(vinyl alcohol) Molecular Bottlebrushes Nucleate Ice. Biomacromolecules 2022; 23:5285-5296. [PMID: 36441868 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biomac.2c01097] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Abstract
Ice binding proteins (IBP) have evolved to limit the growth of ice but also to promote ice formation by ice-nucleating proteins (INPs). IBPs, which modulate these seemingly distinct processes, often have high sequence similarities, and molecular size/assembly is hypothesized to be a crucial determinant. There are only a few synthetic materials that reproduce INP function, and rational design of ice nucleators has not been achieved due to outstanding questions about the mechanisms of ice binding. Poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) is a water-soluble synthetic polymer well known to effectively block ice recrystallization, by binding to ice. Here, we report the synthesis of a polymeric ice nucleator, which mimics the dense assembly of IBPs, using confined ice-binding polymers in a high-molar-mass molecular bottlebrush. Poly(vinyl alcohol)-based molecular bottlebrushes with different side-chain densities were synthesized via a combination of ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP) and reversible addition-fragmentation chain-transfer (RAFT) polymerization, using "grafting-to" and "grafting-through" approaches. The facile preparation of the PVA bottlebrushes was performed via selective hydrolysis of the acetate of the poly(vinyl acetate) (PVAc) side chains of the PVAc bottlebrush precursors. Ice-binding polymer side-chain density was shown to be crucial for nucleation activity, with less dense brushes resulting in colder nucleation than denser brushes. This bio-inspired approach provides a synthetic framework for probing heterogeneous ice nucleation and a route toward defined synthetic nucleators for biotechnological applications.
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- Panagiotis G Georgiou
- Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road, CV4 7AL Coventry, U.K
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road, CV4 7AL Coventry, U.K
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road, CV4 7AL Coventry, U.K
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road, CV4 7AL Coventry, U.K
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- Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road, CV4 7AL Coventry, U.K
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road, CV4 7AL Coventry, U.K
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road, CV4 7AL Coventry, U.K
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road, CV4 7AL Coventry, U.K
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road, CV4 7AL Coventry, U.K.,Division of Biomedical Sciences, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road, CV4 7AL Coventry, U.K
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Varlas S, Hua Z, Jones JR, Thomas M, Foster JC, O’Reilly RK. Complementary Nucleobase Interactions Drive the Hierarchical Self-Assembly of Core–Shell Bottlebrush Block Copolymers toward Cylindrical Supramolecules. Macromolecules 2020. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.0c01857] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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- Spyridon Varlas
- School of Chemistry, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry, CV4 7AL, United Kingdom
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- School of Chemistry, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, United Kingdom
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- School of Chemistry, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, United Kingdom
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- School of Chemistry, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, United Kingdom
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- School of Chemistry, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, United Kingdom
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Li L, Qiang Z, Chen X, Jin K, Wang M, Torkelson JM. Impact of bottlebrush chain architecture on
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effects enabled by thermo‐cleavable bottlebrush polymers synthesized by radical coupling and atom transfer radical polymerization. JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/pol.20200537] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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- Lingqiao Li
- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering Northwestern University Evanston Illinois USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering Northwestern University Evanston Illinois USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering Northwestern University Evanston Illinois USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering Northwestern University Evanston Illinois USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering Northwestern University Evanston Illinois USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering Northwestern University Evanston Illinois USA
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering Northwestern University Evanston Illinois USA
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Schué E, Kopyshev A, Lutz J, Börner HG. Molecular Bottle Brushes with Positioned Selenols: Extending the Toolbox of Oxidative Single Polymer Chain Folding with Conformation Analysis by Atomic Force Microscopy. JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE 2019. [DOI: 10.1002/pola.29496] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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- Emmanuelle Schué
- Laboratory for Organic Synthesis of Functional Systems, Department of ChemistryHumboldt‐Universität zu Berlin Brook‐Taylor‐Strasse 2 12489 Berlin Germany
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- Institute of Physics and AstronomyUniversity of Potsdam 14476 Potsdam Germany
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- Universiteć de Strasbourg, CNRS, Institut Charles Sadron UPR22, 23 rue du Loess Strasbourg 67034 Cedex 2 France
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- Laboratory for Organic Synthesis of Functional Systems, Department of ChemistryHumboldt‐Universität zu Berlin Brook‐Taylor‐Strasse 2 12489 Berlin Germany
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Cylindrical brush copolymer bearing polystyrene-block-poly(ε-caprolactone) diblock side chains: Synthesis via a sequential grafting-from polymerization approach and its formation of fibrillar nanophases in epoxy thermosets. POLYMER 2015. [DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2015.10.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Gallyamov MO, Tartsch B, Börner HG, Matyjaszewski K, Khokhlov AR, Möller M. Spreading and Dewetting of Single Bottle-Brush Macromolecules on Nanofacetted SrTiO3
Substrate as Induced by Different Vapours. MACROMOL CHEM PHYS 2013. [DOI: 10.1002/macp.201200666] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Popov KI, Palyulin VV, Möller M, Khokhlov AR, Potemkin II. Surface induced self-organization of comb-like macromolecules. BEILSTEIN JOURNAL OF NANOTECHNOLOGY 2011; 2:569-84. [PMID: 22003463 PMCID: PMC3190627 DOI: 10.3762/bjnano.2.61] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2011] [Accepted: 07/01/2011] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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We present a review of the theoretical and experimental evidence for the peculiar properties of comb copolymers, demonstrating the uniqueness of these materials among other polymer architectures. These special properties include an increase in stiffness upon increasing side-chain length, the spontaneous curvature of adsorbed combs, rod-globule transition, and specific intramolecular self-assembly. We also propose a theory of chemically heterogeneous surface nanopattern formation in ultrathin films of comblike macromolecules containing two different types (A and B) of incompatible side chains (so-called binary combs). Side chains of the binary combs are strongly adsorbed on a surface and segregated with respect to the backbone. The thickness of surface domains formed by the B side chains is controlled by the interaction with the substrate. We predict the stability of direct and inverse disc-, torus- and stripelike nanostructures. Phase diagrams of the film are constructed.
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- Konstantin I Popov
- Physics Department, Moscow State University, Moscow 119991, Russian Federation
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- Physics Department, Moscow State University, Moscow 119991, Russian Federation
- Institute of Polymer Science, University of Ulm, 89069 Ulm, Germany
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- Institute of Technical and Macromolecular Chemistry, RWTH Aachen and DWI at the RWTH Aachen e.V., 52056 Aachen, Germany
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- Physics Department, Moscow State University, Moscow 119991, Russian Federation
- Institute of Polymer Science, University of Ulm, 89069 Ulm, Germany
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- Physics Department, Moscow State University, Moscow 119991, Russian Federation
- Institute of Polymer Science, University of Ulm, 89069 Ulm, Germany
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Hsu HP, Paul W, Binder K. Structure of Bottle Brush Polymers on Surfaces: Weak versus Strong Adsorption. J Phys Chem B 2011; 115:14116-26. [DOI: 10.1021/jp204006z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Hsiao-Ping Hsu
- Institut für Physik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, 55099 Mainz, Staudinger Weg 7, Germany
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- Theoretische Physik, Martin Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, von Seckendorff Platz 1, 06120 Halle, Germany
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- Institut für Physik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, 55099 Mainz, Staudinger Weg 7, Germany
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Gallyamov MO. Scanning Force Microscopy as Applied to Conformational Studies in Macromolecular Research. Macromol Rapid Commun 2011; 32:1210-46. [DOI: 10.1002/marc.201100150] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2011] [Revised: 04/06/2011] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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Khokhlova MA, Chaschin IS, Grigorev TE, Gallyamov MO. Chitosan Macromolecules on a Substrate: Deposition from Solutions in sc CO2
and Reorganisation in Vapours. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2010. [DOI: 10.1002/masy.201051070] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Hsu HP, Paul W, Binder K. Conformational studies of bottle-brush polymers absorbed on a flat solid surface. J Chem Phys 2010; 133:134902. [DOI: 10.1063/1.3495478] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- Hsiao-Ping Hsu
- Institut für Physik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Staudinger Weg 7, D-55099 Mainz, Germany
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Lu L, Cai Y. Role of vapor-phase mass transport during the spreading of a long-chain alkane drop. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2009; 25:13914-13917. [PMID: 19580290 DOI: 10.1021/la9016917] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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The spreading of liquid alkanes over solid surfaces has important applications in painting, coatings, lubrication, and petroleum tertiary recovery. The role of the vapor-phase mass transport accompanying liquid spreading has not been well studied because it is difficult to separate the contributions from the liquid spreading and the vapor-phase transport that occurred at the same time. We used the engineered surface patterns to study the vapor-phase mass transport during liquid spreading. First, we fabricated several hydrophilic, carboxylic acid-terminated patterns (OTSpd) on a hydrophobic, methyl-terminated octadecyltrichlorosilane (OTS) surface. These OTSpd patterns did not connect to each other. Next, we let an alkane drop spread within one OTSpd pattern. The liquid alkane could not spread to other OTSpd patterns because OTS separated them; however, the alkane molecules in the vapor phase could migrate and adsorb on other OTSpd patterns. Therefore, the contributions from the liquid spreading and the vapor-phase transport were separated and could be investigated independently. We found that during the spreading of the liquid alkane, mass transport through the vapor phase cannot be ignored. Alkane molecules adsorbed on the OTSpd surface with their backbones parallel to the surface in the first few layers. Additional alkane molecules adsorbed on these parallel layers to form the seaweed-shaped layers in which the alkane molecules stood up. Our study showed that the parallel layers formed from the vapor-phase mass transport before the liquid alkane spread. Therefore, the liquid alkane does not spread over the more strongly binding OTSpd surface. It actually spreads over the parallel alkane layer, which formed from its own vapor.
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- Lingbo Lu
- Department of Chemistry, University of Kentucky, Rose Street, Lexington, Kentucky 40506, USA
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Gallyamov MO, Tartsch B, Potemkin II, Börner HG, Matyjaszewski K, Khokhlov AR, Möller M. Individual bottle brush molecules in dense 2D layers restoring high degree of extension after collapse-decollapse cycle: directly measured scaling exponent. THE EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL. E, SOFT MATTER 2009; 29:73-85. [PMID: 19418079 DOI: 10.1140/epje/i2009-10451-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2008] [Revised: 02/02/2009] [Accepted: 03/10/2009] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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We prepared dense films of adsorbed brush-like macromolecules on mica substrate by transfer of compressed Langmuir monolayers from water subphase. The main macromolecular contours in the dense films were clearly resolved by SFM. The films were subjected to successive treatments by ethanol and water vapours. In accordance with previous results for isolated macromolecules, the films underwent collapse and subsequent decollapse morphological transformations in the changing vapour environment. Statistical analysis of the macromolecular dimensions in the films allowed us to measure the values of the scaling exponent nu determining the correlation between mean lateral and linear dimensions of the macromolecules. The analysis showed that the macromolecular conformations in the film as transferred were similar to the previously described conformations of the same macromolecules deposited directly on mica as isolated chains at much lower surface densities. The determined nu was close to the 0.75 value corresponding to the 2D SAW statistics. We assumed that the molecules retained the high degree of extension during the compression step due to suppressed reorganisation of the side chains. Differently from previous observations for isolated macromolecules, the restored conformations in the dense films after collapse-decollapse cycle were more extended with the nu of about 0.73 value. A theoretical explanation of the high degree of re-extension is proposed.
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- M O Gallyamov
- Faculty of Physics, M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie gory 1-2, GSP-1, 119991, Moscow, Russia.
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Gallyamov MO, Qin S, Matyjaszewski K, Khokhlov A, Möller M. Motion of single wandering diblock-macromolecules directed by a PTFE nano-fence: real time SFM observations. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2009; 11:5591-7. [DOI: 10.1039/b819011a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Gallyamov MO, Chaschin IS, Gamzazade AI, Khokhlov AR. Chitosan Molecules Deposited from Supercritical Carbon Dioxide on a Substrate: Visualization and Conformational Analysis. MACROMOL CHEM PHYS 2008. [DOI: 10.1002/macp.200800419] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Potemkin II, Popov KI. Effect of grafting density of the side chains on spontaneous curvature and persistence length of two-dimensional comblike macromolecules. J Chem Phys 2008; 129:124901. [DOI: 10.1063/1.2980050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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