Aisha Adebola Womiloju

Ms. Aisha Adebola Womiloju


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Academic Career Length

5Years (2022-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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31 May 2022 in Polymers
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Melisa Trejo-MaldonadoMelisa Trejo-Maldonado
Melisa Trejo-Maldonado
AWAisha Adebola Womiloju
Aisha Adebola Womiloju
SSSteffi Stumpf
Steffi Stumpf
SHStephanie Hoeppener
Stephanie Hoeppener
Ulrich SchubertUlrich Schubert
Ulrich Schubert
CGCarlos Guerrero-Sanchez
Carlos Guerrero-Sanchez
We report the synthesis of poly(styrene-block-lactic acid) (PS-b-PLA) copolymers with triazole rings as a junction between blocks. These materials were prepared via a ‘click’ strategy which involved the reaction between azide-terminated poly(styrene) (PS-N3) and acetylene-terminated poly(D,L-lactic acid) (PLA-Ac), accomplished by copper-catalyzed azide-alkyne cycloaddition reaction. This synthetic approach has demonstrated to be effective to obtain specific copolymer structures with targeted self-assembly properties. We observed the self-assembly behavior of the PS-b-PLA thin films as induced by solvent vapor annealing (SVA), thermal annealing (TA), and hydrolysis of the as-spun substrates and monitored their morphological changes by means of different microscopic techniques. Self-assembly via SVA and TA proved to be strongly dependent on the pretreatment of the substrates. Microphase segregation of the untreated films yielded a pore size of 125 nm after a 45-min SVA. After selectively removing the PLA microdomains, the as-spun substrates exhibited the formation of pores on the surface, which can be a good alternative to form an ordered pattern of triazole functionalized porous PS at the mesoscale. Finally, as revealed by scanning electron microscopy–energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, the obtained triazole-functionalized PS-porous film exhibited some affinity to copper (Cu) in solution. These materials are suitable candidates to further study its metal-caption properties.