Gel permeation chromatography (GPC) was conducted on a Waters GPC System (Shimadzu, Japan) equipped with two
Phenogel columns (103 and 105 Å) (size: 300 × 7.80 mm) in series and a refractive index detector. HPLC grade THF was used as an eluent at a flow rate of 1 mL/min at 40 °C. Poly(methyl methacrylate) standards were used to generate a calibration curve.
1H and
13C nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectra were obtained using a
500-MHz NMR spectrometer (JEOL, Japan) at room temperature. The chemical shift was referenced to the solvent peak of CDCl
3 at 7.3 ppm.
Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectra were collected using a
Spectrum 2000 FT-IR spectrophotometer (PerkinElmer, USA) at room temperature. The copolymers were mixed with KBr and tableted, undergoing 32 scans in the wavenumber range of 4000–400 cm
−1 at a resolution of 4 cm
−1.
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