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NEW JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY
Volume 42, Issue 1, Pages 39-47Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c7nj02533e
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- National Science Centre, Poland [2016/23/B/ST5/01480, 2016/21/N/ST5/03293]
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The aim of this work is to develop an efficient synthetic approach to hexahedral cage-like organic-inorganic siloxane core biohybrids containing side chains fully functionalized by methacrylate groups derived from monomers such as 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate (HEMA) or ethylene glycol dimethacrylate (EGDMA). The resulting hybrids were characterized using spectroscopic methods (FTIR, H-1, C-13, Si-29 NMR), thermogravimetric and DSC analyses, and high resolution mass spectrometry (HR-MS). The obtained compounds, after polycondensation/polymerization reactions, were utilized in constructing 3D macroporous scaffolds which were examined using a scanning electron microscope (SEM). Covalent networks created by fully functionalized cubic spherosilicates can mimic certain biomaterials and constitute sophisticated, highly organized building blocks of complex systems.
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