Distillation-precipitation polymerization of divinylbenzene was applied to obtain uniform-sized polymeric microspheres. The microspheres were then modified with polypentafluorostyrene chains utilizing surface-initiated atom transfer radical polymerization techniques. The hydrophobic fluoropolymer-coated micro-sphere was then converted to a hydrophilic biopolymer by performing thiol-halogen click chemistry between polypentafluorostyrene and 1-thio-β-D-glucose sodium salt. The semi-fluorinated glycopolymer showed good binding ability with Concanavalin A as determined by confocal microscopy and turbidity experiments.
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Song, W., & Granville, A. M. (2016). Surface modification of polydivinylbenzene microspheres with a fluorinated glycopolymer using thiol-halogen click chemistry. In Methods in Molecular Biology (Vol. 1367, pp. 123–135). Humana Press Inc. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-3130-9_10
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