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ACS NANO
卷 9, 期 12, 页码 12233-12245出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b05473
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bottlebrush; self-assembly; lamellae; block copolymer; self-consistent field theory
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- ExxonMobil Chemical Company
- Center for Sustainable Polymers at the University of Minnesota, a National Science Foundation (NSF) [CHE-1413862]
- Dow Chemical Company
- E.I. DuPont de Nemours Co.
- Northwestern University
- U.S. DOE [DE-AC02-06CH11357]
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Chemistry [1413862] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
The self-assembly of bottlebrush block polymers into a lamellar phase was investigated using a combination of experiment and self-consistent field theory (SCFT). Nine diblock bottlebrush polymers were synthesized with atadic polypropylene side chains (block A) and polystyrene side chains (block B) attached to poly(norbornene) backbones of various contour lengths, L, and the resulting lamellar structures were analyzed using small-angle X-ray scattering. The scaling of the lamellar period, d(0) similar to L-gamma, exhibited an increasing exponent from gamma approximate to 0.3 at small L to gamma approximate to 0.9 at large L. The small exponents occurred for starlike molecules where the size of the side chains is comparable to L, while the larger exponents occurred for the more brushlike molecules where the side chains extend radially outward from the backbone. The bottlebrushes were then modeled using flexible side chains of types A and B attached to a semiflexible backbone with an adjustable persistence length, xi(b). The resulting SCFT predictions for d(0) showed remarkable quantitative agreement with the experimental data, where xi(b) was similar to the radius of the bottlebrushes. The theory was then used to examine the joint-distribution functions for the position and orientation of different segments along the backbone. This revealed a bilayer arrangement of the bottlebrushes in the lamellar phase, with a high degree of backbone orientation at the A/B interfaces that almost completely vanished near the center of the domains. This finding clearly refutes the prevailing interpretation that the large scaling exponent gamma is a result of highly extended backbone conformations.
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