Marine Antifouling Coatings Based on Durable Bottlebrush Polymers.

We report a next-generation, biocide-free, and durable marine antifouling coating technology. To achieve this, we combined two different polymers previously developed by us. First, we synthesized well-defined 2-hydroxypropyl acrylamide (HPA) based bottlebrush polymers with concentrated polymer brush (CPB) structures, which exhibit excellent bioinertness, and second, we synthesized photoreactive copolymers of 2-hydroxypropyl acrylamide (HPA) and -benzophenone acrylamide (BPA), which can be cross-linked by exposure to sunlight for 30 min.

Preparation and function of poly(acrylic acid)s modified by supramolecular complex composed of porphinatoiron and a cyclodextrin dimer that bind diatomic molecules (O2 and CO) in aqueous solution.

Poly(acrylic acid) (PAA) is modified by 5-(4-β-alanylaminophenyl)-10,15,20-tris(4-sulfonatophenyl) porphinatoiron(III) to yield iron porphyrin-bearing PAAs (FeP(n)s) through a condensation reaction. FeP(n)s were further functionalized by Py3CD, which is a per-O-methylated β-cyclodextrin (CD) dimer with a pyridine linker and includes the porphyrin pendants to form ferric hemoCD-P(n)s. Ferrous hemoCD-P(3), having three porphyrin chromophores in a polymer chain, is shown to bind molecular oxygen (P(1/2)=7.