Functional biohybrid materials have found applications in many diverse fields such as catalysis, drug delivery, imaging and sensing. An interesting class of biohybrid materials are DNA block copolymers (DNABCp) which have been previously synthesized using �grafting-to� methodologies. We recently used a �grafting-from� approach via activators generated by electron transfer atom transfer radical polymerization to grow well-defined polymers from the 5' end of DNA modified with an ATRP initiator (Figure 1). A potential application of this system was demonstrated by synthesizing DNA latex particles and demonstrating their ability to selectively recognize the compliment DNA strand.

Synthesis of DNA block copolymers using AGET ATRP

248th National Meeting (2014)

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