• copolymers
• biomedical and biological applications
• amphiphilic
• oligo(2-ethyl-2-oxazoline)methacrylate

This thesis work is part of a collaboration project with the Federal Polytechnic of Zurich (ETH-Zurich) aimed at the synthesis, using a controlled radical polymerization (CRP) technique, of new amphiphilic copolymers containing hydrophilic monomer units of polyoxazoline methacrylate and methacrylate units having hydrophobic side chains of different nature (polysiloxane and / or fluorinated . Some structural parameters of the copolymer, such as composition, degree of hydrophobic units of the side chain and its length will be systematically varied to highlight their effect on the thermoresponsive behavior of the copolymer in water and on its self-aggregation properties in solution, mass and at the surfac of thin films.