Promoting self-assembly and synthesis of color-responsive polydiacetylenes using mixed water-organic solvents: Effects of solvent composition, structure, and incubation temperature

A conventional method for the synthesis of color-responsive polydiacetylene (PDA) materials normally involves the dispersion of amphiphilic diacetylene (DA) monomers in water, incubation at low temperature, and then photopolymerization. This time-consuming process produces relatively low PDA yield, limiting the utilization in industrial applications. Recently, we introduced a solution-mixing method (SMM) that significantly improved the synthetic...