聚甲基丙烯酸甲酯-聚四氢呋喃嵌段共聚物微观结构的研究

 我们用SAXS、TEM等方法研究了分子量分散性较大的PMMA-b-PTHF两嵌段共聚物的微相结构。试样的分子量多分散系数为1.99,PMMA的重量分数为0.48。实验结果表明,其平衡微相结构并不是层状微区,而是在尺寸上也具有一定分散性的球状微区,微区之间并未形成三维有序的大晶格结构,而是一种无规聚集结构。这和单分散两嵌段共聚物理论所预言的结果是不同的。     

用透射电镜法研究聚(苯乙烯-异戊二烯)二嵌段共聚物微相分离的微区尺寸

本文采用透射电镜(TEM)法,系统地研究了具有不同组成,不同分子量和不同形态结构的聚(苯乙烯-异戊二烯)二嵌段共聚物,并由TEM照片直接测量具有栓状,层状和有规双连续双金钢石(OBDD)结构的PS-PI二嵌共聚物的微区尺寸,讨论了其与分子量的关系。实验证明嵌段共聚物微相分离有规结构的微区尺寸大小与分子量呈2/3的关系。     

聚苯乙烯/聚异戊二烯嵌段共聚物相态结构的固体核磁研究

本文将固体核磁中的交叉极化与魔角旋转(CP/MS)技术与Goldman-Shen脉冲序列相结合,研究了不同分子量的单分散聚苯乙烯/聚异戊二烯嵌段共聚物(SAI)中磁化矢量的自旋扩散速度。以一个均匀分布的相结构模型为基础,求解了扩散方程和样品中的微区尺寸。     

AB交联聚合物的形态

以低分子量的端乙烯基聚氨酯预聚物同乙烯类单体共聚制得的AB交联聚合物(ABCP)呈现出两相形态结构,聚氨酯相形成分散相,塑料组份形成连续相。形态结构最显著特点是分散相区呈现出多分散性;其次,分散相区的形状不规则。这些特征不同于线型AB、ABA嵌段共聚物及A_2B接枝共聚物,这是由于ABCP中,A和B两组份间存在着化学交联。交联密度,预聚物的分子量对两组份的相容性,形态结构有显著影响。     

用于大分子定向自组装的新型嵌段共聚物的合成与表征

设计了具有高Flory-Huggins相互作用参数的嵌段共聚物聚(对叔丁基苯乙烯)-b-聚(甲基丙烯酸羟乙酯)(PtBS-b-PHEMA),并分别采用阴离子聚合和原子转移自由基聚合(ATRP)方式制备了不同嵌段比例、不同分子量的窄分子量分布的该嵌段共聚物。利用核磁共振分析了嵌段共聚物的组分,利用小角X射线散射(SAXS)分析了嵌段共聚物相分离后的尺寸及结构,对比研究了两种聚合方式对嵌段共聚物性能的影响。结果表明,采用阴离子聚合方式得到的嵌段共聚物分子量分布更窄,相同分子量下发生微相分离的尺寸更小,其在150℃真空烘箱中加热18h后可以形成尺寸为9.96nm的柱状相及8.42nm的层状相。     

等规聚苯乙烯与聚(乙烯/丙烯)嵌段共聚物的研究(Ⅱ)──嵌段共聚物的分离与表征

将配位聚合法合成的等规聚苯乙烯与聚(乙烯/丙烯)嵌段共聚反应产物进行溶剂车取分离,得到嵌段共聚物[iPS-b-Poly(E-co-P)]的含量约为总重量的20％～30％,并用¹³CNMR、FTIR、WAXD、DSC和电子显微镜进行表征．该共聚物是具有等规聚苯乙烯(iPS)与乙丙无规共聚链段结构的三元两嵌段共聚物,且iPS链段有一定的结晶度．由透射电镜可以看出,嵌段共聚物存在微相分离结构,相区尺寸在100nm数量级．     

用固体高分辨NMR研究聚(L-丙氨酸)-聚乙二醇单甲醚双嵌段共聚物的微相结构与链段运动

利用固体高分辨¹³CCP/MAS及二维WISE核磁共振技术研究了聚(L-丙氨酸)-聚乙二醇单甲醚双嵌段共聚物(MPEG-b-PLA)在固态下的微相结构和链段运动行为.结果表明,聚乙二醇链段在形成嵌段共聚物后结晶度明显下降,同时存在晶区和非晶区,从而表现出两种不同的运动状态.而聚乙二醇链段的引入对聚L-丙氨酸链段影响不大,嵌段共聚物中聚L-丙氨酸链段高度结晶,同时含有大量的α螺旋结构,分子链运动严重受限,估计聚L-丙氨酸链段的相区尺寸很小.     

分子量多分散性对AB二嵌段共聚物相行为的影响

采用Monte Carlo方法研究了分子量多分散性对AB型嵌段共聚物相行为的影响. 通过调整嵌段共聚物中组分含量, 考察了整体多分散性和单嵌段多分散性对嵌段共聚物共混物的有序-无序转变(Order-disorder transition, ODT)、 形貌及链尺寸的影响. 研究结果表明, 多分散度的增大使无序相向较大χN区域略微移动, 形成的片层结构厚度增加. 在形成微观有序形貌后, 较大分散度时各亚组分的链会得到更大的伸展, 表明分子链堆积受挫的程度减小, 因此, 涨落作用受到的抑制作用减小, 无序相区向更低温度区域移动.     

聚二甲基硅氧烷-聚对苯二甲酸酚酞酯嵌段共聚物的合成及表征

用低温溶液法合成了以聚二甲基硅氧烷(PSX)为软段、聚对苯二甲酸酚酞酯(PAE)为硬段的〔-(AB)-_n〕型多嵌段共聚物。对共聚物结构的表征表明,使用该方法可得到硅氧烷含量可控的分子量较高的共聚物。随软段长度及含量的不同,既可得到弹性体也可得到较坚硬的材料。共聚物具有两相结构、较好的力学性能、耐热性及成膜性。     

用双官能团引发剂进行的基团转移嵌段共聚研究

本文用二种双官能团引发剂进行基团转移嵌段共聚研究,得到了一系列实测分子量和理论分子量相近、分子量分布较窄的A-B-A型嵌段共聚物。用GPC、~1H-NMR、DSC等手段对嵌段共聚物进行了表征,证明确是两相嵌段共聚丙烯酸酯。发现位阻较大的单体作为第二单体时不利于聚合。过高的催化剂用量使嵌段共聚的总转化率降低。使用极性较大的溶剂可缩短第一步聚合的诱导期,但不影响第二步聚合的诱导期,即极性较大的溶剂有利于催化剂的离解。单体浓度增大使共聚物的分子量减小,多分散性指数增大。可通过单体投料比改变共聚物的热形变温度。     

嵌段共聚物／均聚物共混体系的微相分离和形态结构研究

着重介绍嵌段共聚物／均聚物共混体系的微相分离，微胶束的形成，微区的形态结构以及形态的控制。     

The influence of confinement and curvature on the morphology of block copolymers

In the bulk, at equilibrium, diblock copolymers microphase separated into nanoscopic morphologies ranging from body-centered cubic arrays of spheres to hexagonally packed cylinders to alternating lamellae, depending on the volume fraction of the components. However, when the block copolymers are forced into cylindrical pores, where the diameter of the pores are only several repeat periods of the copolymer morphology or less, then commensurability of the copolymer period and the pore diameter can impose a frustration on the microdomain morphology. In addition, due to the small pore diameter, a curvature is forced on the microdomain morphology. In combination with interfacial interactions between the blocks of the copolymer and the pore walls, the preferential segregation of one component to the walls, spatial confinement and forced curvature are shown to induce transitions in the fundamental morphology of the copolymers seen in the bulk. Lamellar morphologies transformed into torus-type morphologies, cylinders are forced into helices, and body-centered cubic arrays of spheres are force into helical arrays of spheres due to these restraints. The novel morphologies, not accesssible in the bulk, open a large array of nanoscopic structures that can be used as templates and scaffolds for the fabrication of inorganic nanostructured materials. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part B: Polym Phys 43: 3377–3383, 2005     

Effect of polydispersity on the phase diagrams of linear ABC triblock copolymers in two dimensions

By using a two-dimensional (2D) real-space self-consistent field theory, we present the phase diagrams of monodisperse ABC triblock copolymers in a three-component triangle style with the interaction energies given between the distinct blocks; this system displays richer phase behavior when compared with the corresponding diblock copolymers. Polydispersity of the end or middle blocks in the ABC linear block copolymer chains results in a completely different phase diagram. The presence of a polydisperse end block may cause strong segregation to occur among the three distinct components and larger domain sizes of the dispersed phases; a polydisperse middle block may allow a connection to form between the two phases of the two end blocks.     

STRUCTURE OF CRYSTALLINE DOMAINS IN SEMICRYSTALLINE BLOCK COPOLYMER THIN FILMS

Thin film morphology of a symmetric semicrystalline oxyethylene/oxybutylene diblock copolymer （E76B38） on silicon was investigated by tapping mode atomic force microscopy （AFM）. It is found that the nascent thin film is composed of multiple polymer layers having mixed thicknesses of L ≈ L0 and L ≈ L0/2 （L0 is the long period of the block copolymer in bulk） besides the first layer near the substrate. This shows that the crystalline domain in the block copolymer consists of double poly（oxyethylene） layers. Annealing leads to disappearance of the polymer layers with thickness L ≈L0/2, indicating that such polymer layers are metastable.     

Temperature‐dependent location of a weakly segregated block copolymer in binary blends of block copolymers

The phase behaviors of binary blends of poly(styrene‐b‐butadiene) block copolymers were investigated by a small‐angle X‐ray scattering technique. The blends were composed of weakly segregated one in a random micellar phase and the other in a cylindrical phase with similar molecular weights and complementary volume fractions. Morphologies, domain spacings, and order–disorder transition temperatures of the blends indicated that the junctions of the constituent block copolymers share the interface at low temperatures. The domain spacing decreased as temperature increased in a blend with a small amount of the weakly segregated block copolymer. In the cases of the blends with a large amount of the weakly segregated constituent, domain spacing increased with increasing temperature. These results implied that some of the weakly segregated block copolymer moved from the interface to one microdomain at higher temperatures. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Polym. Sci., Part B: Polym. Phys. 2014 , 52, 470–476     

Unexpected consequences of block polydispersity on the self-assembly of ABA triblock copolymers

Controlled/"living" polymerizations and tandem polymerization methodologies offer enticing opportunities to enchain a wide variety of monomers into new, functional block copolymer materials with unusual physical properties. However, the use of these synthetic methods often introduces nontrivial molecular weight polydispersities, a type of chain length heterogeneity, into one or more of the copolymer blocks. While the self-assembly behavior of monodisperse AB diblock and ABA triblock copolymers is both experimentally and theoretically well understood, the effects of broadening the copolymer molecular weight distribution on block copolymer phase behavior are less well-explored. We report the melt-phase self-assembly behavior of SBS triblock copolymers (S = poly(styrene) and B = poly(1,4-butadiene)) comprised of a broad polydispersity B block (M(w)/M(n) = 1.73-2.00) flanked by relatively narrow dispersity S blocks (M(w)/M(n) = 1.09-1.36), in order to identify the effects of chain length heterogeneity on block copolymer self-assembly. Based on synchrotron small-angle X-ray scattering and transmission electron microscopy analyses of seventeen SBS triblock copolymers with poly(1,4-butadiene) volume fractions 0.27 ≤ f(B) ≤ 0.82, we demonstrate that polydisperse SBS triblock copolymers self-assemble into periodic structures with unexpectedly enhanced stabilities that greatly exceed those of equivalent monodisperse copolymers. The unprecedented stabilities of these polydisperse microphase separated melts are discussed in the context of a complete morphology diagram for this system, which demonstrates that narrow dispersity copolymers are not required for periodic nanoscale assembly.     

Surface-induced morphologies in thin films of a rod-coil diblock copolymer

A block copolymer containing a rodlike block is studied for its adsorption and formation of nanostructured thin films on the substrate surface. The block copolymer is poly(styrene-b-3-triethoxysilylpropylisocyanate) (PS-b-PIC) of which the PIC chain consists of repeating amide units with triethoxysilyl side groups. As the copolymer chains are adsorbed onto silica surfaces, the PIC blocks pack laterally on the plane in a smectic manner, and the PS chains segregate along the ordered PIC chains, resulting in stripe patterns. The width of the stripes formed on the silica surface appeared to be much larger that on the carbon surface. This was accounted for by the bilayered smectic packing of the rod blocks that is induced by rod-surface attractive interaction. The periodicity of the stripe pattern on the carbon surface indicates that interdigitated packing is preferred by the copolymers on the hydrophobic surface in a manner similar to those in the bulk state of rod-coils. Excess rod-coils on the bilayered smectic layer resulted in a terraced morphology due to large difference in the periodicity between the bilayered smectic layer at the substrate surface and the interdigitated smectic layer in the bulk.     

PTHF-b-PMMA/PVC共混体系的相容性和结晶行为

研究了具有焓效应的聚四氢呋喃-聚甲基丙烯酸甲酯两嵌段共聚物与聚氯乙烯PTHF-b-PMMA/PVC)共混体系的相容性和结晶行为. 结果表明, 其相容性比AB/A型嵌段共聚物共混体系的相容性要好得多; 与PTHF部分相容的PVC对PTHF微区的结晶行为可产生很大的影响. 应用有关理论和模型很好地解释了结晶行为的这种变化.     

Effect of polydispersity on the tensile modulus of diblock copolymers in a lamellar phase

We have calculated the tensile moduli of nanomaterials having lamellar microstructures prepared through the self-assembly of a polydisperse diblock copolymer. We observed that the extensional moduli K33 provided the major contribution to the tensile modulus and that the value of K33 depended mainly on the contribution of K33(U) (the internal energy contribution to K33). We found that a larger polydispersity index (PDI) weakens the material for our polydisperse model; we attribute this phenomenon to the larger lamellar domain size at equilibrium when the polydispersity of the block increases and to the competition between short and long chains. We found that longer chains in this system strengthen the material, but shorter chains weaken it as a result of the influence of the PDI. The shear modulus contributed negligibly to the extensional moduli.