Dilute solutions and phase behavior of polydisperse A-b-(A-co-B) diblock copolymers |
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Authors: | Daniel Gromadzki Jan Lokaj Miroslav Šlouf Petr Št?pánek |
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Affiliation: | Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Heyrovsky Sq. 2, 162 06 Prague 6, Czech Republic |
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Abstract: | The effect of polydispersity on dilute solution properties and microphase separation of polydisperse high-molecular-weight (Mw > 105 g mol−1) polystyrene-block-poly(styrene-co-acrylonitrile) diblock copolymers, PS-block-P(S-co-AN), was studied in this work. For experiments, a series of diblock copolymers with variable weight fractions of acrylonitrile units (wAN = 0.08-0.29) and length of block P(S-co-AN) was synthesized using nitroxide-mediated radical polymerization (NMP) technique, namely, by chain extension of nitroxide-terminated polystyrene (PS-TEMPO). According to light scattering and viscometry measurements in dilute tetrahydrofuran (THF) solutions the studied diblock copolymers assumed random coil conformation with the values of characteristic structure factor Rg/Rh = 1.50-1.76. It was found that polydisperse diblock copolymers being in strong segregation limit (SSL) self-assembled into microphase-separated ordered morphologies at ordinary temperature. The long periods of lamellar microdomains were larger compared to theoretical predictions for hypothetical monodisperse diblock copolymers. It was demonstrated by means of SAXS and TEM that a transition from a lamellar (LAM) to irregular face-centered-cubic (FCC) morphology occurred with increasing volume fraction of P(S-co-AN) block. |
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Keywords: | Diblock copolymer Dilute solution properties Microphase separation |
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