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MACROMOLECULAR RAPID COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 39, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/marc.201800043
Keywords
anionic polymerization; core-shell double gyroid structure; self-assembly; Steglich esterification; thin films
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- Arkema
- Region Nouvelle Aquitaine
- Equipex ELORPrintTec [ANR-10-EQPX-28-01]
- LabEx AMADEUS [ANR-10-LABEX-0042-AMADEUS]
- French state Initiative d'Excellence IdEx [ANR-10-IDEX-003-02]
- LCPO-Arkema INDUSTRIAL CHAIR HOMERIC [ANR-13-CHIN-0002-01]
- Region Aquitaine [2014-1R110205-00002959]
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The synthesis and self-assembly in thin-film configuration of linear ABC triblock terpolymer chains consisting of polystyrene (PS), poly(2-vinylpyridine) (P2VP), and polyisoprene (PI) are described. For that purpose, a hydroxyl-terminated PS-b-P2VP (45 kg mol(-1)) building block and a carboxyl-terminated PI (9 kg mol-1) are first separately prepared by anionic polymerization, and then are coupled via a Steglich esterification reaction. This quantitative and metal-free catalyst synthesis route reveals to be very interesting since functionalization and purification steps are straightforward, and well-defined terpolymers are produced. A solvent vapor annealing (SVA) process is used to promote the self-assembly of frustrated PS-b-P2VP-b-PI chains into a thin-film core-shell double gyroid (Q(230), space group: Ia (3) over bard) structure. As terraces are formed within PS-b-P2VP-b-PI thin films during the SVA process under a CHCl3 vapor, different plane orientations of the Q(230) structure ((211), (110), (111), and (100)) are observed at the polymer-air interface depending on the film thickness.
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