Preparation of Golf Ball-like Polymer Particles Bearing Site-Selective Functional Groups.

ABSTRACT: Golf ball-like particles have emerged as interesting materials in the fields of therapeutics, diagnostics, chemical sensing, etc. because of their unique shapes (with concave and convex moieties) and physical properties. Despite their uniqueness, their surfaces are generally covered with single components lacking functional groups, and a well-established functionalization method for a specific area of these particles, such as their concave or convex surface, is lacking. Thus, we proposed a seeded-dispersion polymerization (SDP)-based method for preparing anionic- and cationic-group-bearing golf ball-like polymer particles mainly on their convex surface. Briefly, we prepared golf ball-like particles with site-selective functional groups by subjecting n-butyl methacrylate (nBMA

SUBMITTER: Morishita T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11874015 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature