“…In this way, the exploration of novel fluoroalkyl end-capped oligomers containing numerous hydroxyl segments is of particular interest, from the developmental viewpoints of new fluorinated functional materials. In a variety of hydroxylated polymers, much attention has been focused on the synthetic sugar-containing polymers (glycopolymers), which possess the pendent gluconic residues (pentaol units), owing to their role as biomimetic analogues and their applications in biomedical and technological fields such as paints and cosmetics [ 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 ]. In fact, poly(allylamine) can react with gluconolactone in water to provide the gluconamide-substituted polymers, successively affording the hydrogel through the interaction of the corresponding polymers with borax [ 20 ].…”