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Synthesis and Characterization of Amphiphilic AB Star Copolymers 2 Comprised of Poly(ethylene oxide) and Polystyrene Blocks by ATRP Dairen Lu, Kui Xu, Yun Wang, Kang Tao , and Ruke Bai* Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, P. R. China E-mail: bairk@; Tel: 0086-551-3600722, Fax: 0086-551-3631760 Abstract A new macroinitiator MPEO-Br was synthesized by the reaction of monomethoxy end-capped 2 poly(ethylene oxide) with 3, 5-bis(bromomethyl)benzoic chloride, and then used to initiate the polymerization of styrene at 110oC with CuBr/bpy as catalyst system. The results of polymerization show the characteristics of living free radical polymerization. There exists a linear relationship between ln([M]0/[M]) and polymerization time, and the molecular weights increase linearly as the increase of monomer conversion with low polydispersity. Furthermore, well-defined amphiphilic AB2B star copolymers were prepared and confirmed from the structure 1 and molecular weight of the copolymers characterized by H-NMR and GPC. Keywords: AB star copolymer; Atom transfer radical polymerization; Polystyrene 2 1. Introduction Amphiphilic block copolymers are widely explored for their ability to form organized micellar aggregates with different morphologies in polymer solution, in bulk state, and