Tuned phase behavior of weakly interacting polystyrene-block-poly(n-pentyl methacrylate) by selective solvent |
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Authors: | Hong Chul Moon Chaoxu Li Sung Hyun Han Jongheon KwakJin Kon Kim |
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Affiliation: | National Creative Research Initiative Center for Smart Block Copolymers, Department of Chemical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, Kyungbuk 790-784, Republic of Korea |
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Abstract: | We investigated, via small angle X-ray scattering, depolarized light scattering, rheometry, and transmission electron microscopy, the phase behavior of the mixture of a symmetric polystyrene-block-poly(n-pentyl methacrylate) copolymer (PS-b-PnPMA) showing the closed-loop phase behavior and excellent baroplasticity, and dodecanol, a PnPMA-selective solvent. We found that the addition of a selective solvent is simple, but very effective to obtain various microdomains including hexagonally packed cylinders and gyroids. Also, with increasing temperature, the mixtures showed multiple ordered-to-ordered transitions (OOTs) in addition to upper ordered-to-disordered transition (UODT). The first observation of gyroid microdomains in PS-b-PnPMA is very important, although they have been widely reported in many block copolymers, for instance, PS-block-polyisoprene copolymer (PS-b-PI) and PS-block-poly(d,l-lactide) copolymer (PS-b-PLA). Since the gyroid microdomains of PS-b-PnPMA show excellent baroplasticity, external pressure instead of temperature could easily change the microdomains. |
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Keywords: | Block copolymer Gyroid microdomains Phase behavior |
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