Supporting Information to

Selenide containing high refractive index polymer material

with adjustable refractive index and Abbe’s number

Huinan Jiang, Xiangqiang Pan, Na Li, Zhengbiao Zhang, Jian Zhu* and Xiulin Zhu

Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Functional Polymer Design and Application, State and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for Novel Functional Polymeric

Materials, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Soochow University, Suzhou, 215123,

P. R. China.Characterization

Figure 1S. TGA curves of poly glycidyl methacrylate (P1-1~6 ,DP=465) under nitrogen with a heating rate of

10 °C/min.

Figure 2S. TGA curves of poly(glycidyl methacrylate)s synthesized by conventional radical polymerization

(PGMA-AIBN) and living radical polymerization (PGMA-RAFT) before and after selenide modification

(PGMA-AIBN-Se and PGMA-RAFT-Se)

Figure 3S. UV-vis spectra of P1-1~6 in DMF solution.

Figure 4S. GPC traces of polymers obtained with P1-1~P1-6, DMF as the eluent.

Table 1S. The refractive index of different degree of polymerization with similar selenium content.

DP Se% RI Se% RI1 0 1.4494 - -

120 0 1.5110 11 1.6160465 0 1.6380 13 1.7010740 0 1.6950 13 1.7550