Polymer–cosolvent systems. XI. Polystyrene dissolved in mixtures of diethyl ether and nitromethane

The ternary system nitromethane (1) +diethyl ether (2) +polystyrene (3) has been examined by determining the demixing behavior of the polymer in the temperature–solvent composition plane. Enhanced solvation of the polymer is evidenced by the ability of the mixture to dissolve very high molecular weight (10⁷ g/mol) polystyrene at intermediate solvent compositions compared with the behavior in the two solvents separately. The cosolvent action of the mixture is analyzed in terms of modern theories of polymer solution free volume.     

Reversible thermoresponsive behavior of poly(2-chloroethyl vinyl ether-<Emphasis Type="Italic">alt</Emphasis>-maleic anhydride) in mixed solvent of tetrahydrofuran/hexane

Poly(2-chloroethyl vinyl ether-alt-maleic anhydride) can exhibit lower critical solution temperature-type phase behavior reversibly by tuning the solvent composition in mixed solvent of tetrahydrofuran (THF) and hexane. The effect of solvent composition and polymer concentration on cloud point of polymer solution was investigated. The cloud point temperature for high molecular weight polymer was lower than that for lower molecular weight polymer. High resolution ¹H NMR spectra in mixed solvent of THF-d ₈ and hexane were also measured for comprehending thermoresponsive behavior of polymer solution in molecular level; however, any discontinuous change in the NMR signals around the cloud point could not be recognized.     

高分子溶液剪切增稠行为、机理及应用

综述了具有剪切增稠性质的高分子溶液及其流变行为,分析了高分子溶液剪切增稠的机理,讨论了高分子浓度、分子量和高分子组成等对剪切增稠高分子溶液流变行为的影响,最后介绍了高分子剪切增稠体系在石油开采、抗冲减振及日用化工等领域的应用。     

Direct analysis of polymer pyrolysis using laser microprobe techniques

A laser microprobe-mass analysis technique has been developed which enables the overall course of polymer decomposition processes to be directly followed. Volatile pyrolysis products evolved during laser-vaporization of the polymer substrate are immediately formed into a molecular beam and mass analyzed. Modulated molecular beam techniques are utilized to provide increased detection sensitivity and to aid in the analysis of complex mass spectra by providing a means to directly discriminate parent ions from fragment ions. Elimination of intermediate product collection stages permits the time-resolved behavior of the polymer decomposition process to be investigated. Results are presented for rigid and plasticized polyvinyl chloride, a polyoxymethylene copolymer and a polyester elastomer block copolymer.     

官能化度对环氧树脂类偶氮聚合物光致取向的影响

利用光诱导双折射和偏振红外光谱法研究了偶氮官能化度对环氧树脂类偶氮聚合物BP-AZ-CA的光致取向行为的影响,重点研究了偶氮官能化度对偶氮生色团和聚合物主链的光致取向速度及饱和取向程度的影响规律.结果表明,随着偶氮官能化度的增加,偶氮生色团和聚合物主链的光致取向速度均降低,但二者的饱和取向程度增加.体系中氢键相互作用的增强是导致BP-AZ-CA的光致取向行为随偶氮官能化度增加而变化的原因之一.     

聚碳酸酯与苯乙烯-丙烯腈共聚物共混体系相容性及其对光学性能的影响

利用分子内链段排斥性相互作用理论研究了聚碳酸酯 (PC) 苯乙烯 丙烯腈共聚物 (SAN)共混体系中组份分子量及SAN共聚比例对体系相容性的影响规律 ,确定了获得均相的PC SAN共混体系的条件 ,考察了体系相容性与光学性能之间的关系 .通过实验获得了均相的PC SAN共混物 ;研究结果表明PC聚合度为 90、SAN聚合度为 3 0的PC SAN(S体积含量为 68%)体系共混比在 60∶40附近时体系的双折射能够实现补偿 ,紫外透光率达到 70 %.     

水溶性高分子分子量对其与电荷稳定的胶体分散体系的混合体系相行为的影响

利用同步辐射小角X射线散射技术,对不同相对分子质量的水溶性高分子聚氧化乙烯(PEO)与电荷稳定的聚甲基丙烯酸甲酯(PMMA)乳胶的混合体系的相行为进行了研究。 PEO与PMMA乳胶混合体系的相行为与体系中乳胶粒子的体积分数和PEO的浓度相关。 在一定乳胶粒子体积分数下,在较低PEO浓度下,混合体系保持均匀分散性。 而当PEO浓度高于某一临界浓度时,混合体系将发生相分离,生成集团相或者形成面心立方(FCC)晶体结构。 PEO相对分子质量的大小也是影响混合体系相行为的重要因素。 当PEO的相对分子质量较高时,混合体系发生相分离所对应的临界PEO浓度较低。 除此,PEO相对分子质量对混合体系的结晶行为也有影响。 在低乳胶粒子体积分数下,较高相对分子质量的PEO容易使乳胶粒子结晶。 相反的,在较高乳胶粒子体积分数下,较低相对分子质量的PEO容易使乳胶粒子堆积形成结晶结构。     

Competitive adsorption of neutral comb polymers and sodium dodecyl sulfate at the air/water interface

The interfacial behavior of aqueous solutions of four different neutral polymers in the presence of sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) has been investigated by surface tension measurements and ellipsometry. The polymers comprised linear poly(ethylene oxide) with low and high molecular masses (10(3) and 10(6) Dalton (Da), respectively), and two high molecular mass methacrylate-based comb polymers containing poly(ethylene oxide) side chains. The adsorption isotherms of SDS, determined by Gibbs analysis of surface tension data, are nearly the same in the presence of the high molecular mass linear polymer and the comb polymers. Analysis of the ellipsometric data reveals that while a single surface layer model is appropriate for films of polymer alone, a more sophisticated interfacial layer model is necessary for films of SDS alone. For the polymer/surfactant mixtures, a novel semiempirical approach is proposed to determine the surface excess of polymer, and hence quantify the interfacial composition, through analysis of data from the two techniques. The replacement of the polymer due to surfactant adsorption is much less pronounced for the high molecular mass linear polymer and for the comb polymers than for the low molecular mass linear polymer. This finding is rationalized by the significantly higher adsorption driving force of the larger polymer molecules as well as by their more amphiphilic structure in the case of the comb polymers.     

Nonlinear electrical dipolar switching at single molecular scale

At the single molecular scale (less than 2 Å × 2 Å × 9.8 Å), the nonlinear electrical dipolar switching behavior from crystalline two-monolayer polyvinylidene fluoride films was measured using a scanning tunneling microscope (STM). The atomic structure of the polymer chain was clearly imaged by the STM. The nonlinear switching behavior at the single molecular scale appears as the hysteresis in the tunneling current–voltage relationship with switching onset voltage of 0.19 V/monomer. The nonlinear dipolar switching behavior at the single molecular scale has many potential applications including single molecular scale switching devices and re-writable non-volatile memories.     

Control of buckling in colloidal droplets during evaporation-induced assembly of nanoparticles

Micrometric grains of anisotropic morphology have been achieved by evaporation-induced self-assembly of silica nanoparticles. The roles of polymer concentration and its molecular weight in controlling the buckling behavior of drying droplets during assembly have been investigated. Buckled doughnut grains have been observed in the case of only silica colloid. Such buckling of the drying droplet could be arrested by attaching poly(ethylene glycol) on the silica surface. The nature of buckling in the case of only silica as well as modified silica colloids has been explained in terms of theory of homogeneous elastic shell under capillary pressure. However, it has been observed that colloids, modified by polymer with relatively large molecular weight, gives rise to buckyball-type grains at higher concentration and could not be explained by the above theory. It has been demonstrated that the shell formed during drying of colloidal droplet in the presence of polymer becomes inhomogeneous due to the presence of soft polymer rich zones on the shell that act as buckling centers, resulting in buckyball-type grains.     

Interaction between pentaethylene glycol n-octyl ether and poly(acrylic acid): effect of the polymer molecular weight

The effect of the polymer molecular weight on the interaction between pentaethylene glycol n-octyl ether (C(8)E(5)) and poly(acrylic acid) (PAA) has been investigated by a combined experimental strategy including tensiometry, potentiometry, calorimetry, fluorescence quenching and intradiffusion (pulsed gradient spin echo-NMR) measurements. PAA samples with an average molecular weight varying in a wide range (M (w)=2000, 100,000, 250,000, and 450,000) have been considered. The measurements have been performed at constant polymer concentration (0.1% w/w) with varying surfactant molality. In all the considered systems, at low surfactant concentration, adsorption of surfactant monomers onto the polymer chain has been detected. At a C(8)E(5) molality (T(1)) independent of the PAA M (w), surfactant molecules start to aggregate, forming clusters to which the polymer co-participates. Above this concentration, the behavior of the system depends on M (w). In fact, if polymer samples with high molecular weight (M (w)100,000) are employed, all the added surfactant aggregates onto the polymer leading to the polymer saturation and, subsequently, to free micelles formation. Both saturation and free micellization occur at surfactant concentrations which are independent of the polymer molecular weight. C(8)E(5) aqueous mixtures containing PAA with low molecular weight (M (w)=2000) behaves differently, in that, above T(1), only a fraction ( approximately 20%) of the added surfactant molecules interact with the polymer, forming aggregates to which more than one PAA chain participate. In this case, C(8)E(5) free micellization occurs before polymer saturation. The experimental evidences have been interpreted in terms of the subtle balance between the various molecular interactions driving the surfactant-polymer aggregation.     

杂多酸引发四氢呋喃聚合反应 Ⅱ.水的反应行为

前报我们对低腐蚀性非均相的磷钨杂多酸Ｈ３ＰＷ１２Ｏ４０（ＰＷ１２）引发体系进行了研究［１］,发现环氧乙烷（ＥＯ）可有效地促进ＰＷ１２引发的四氢呋喃（ＴＨＦ）聚合反应,大幅度地降低了引发剂用量,聚合物收率显著提高,并发现聚合过程中不存在链终止反应．产物...     

Rheological properties of linear and crosslinked polymer blends: Relation between crosslink density and enhancement of elongational viscosity

Strain‐hardening behavior in the elongational viscosity of binary blends composed of a linear polymer and a crosslinked polymer, in which the molecular chains of the linear polymer were incorporated into the network chains of the crosslinked polymer, was studied. Blending the crosslinked polymer characterized as the gel just beyond the sol–gel transition point greatly enhanced the strain‐hardening behavior in the elongational viscosity, even though the amount of the crosslinked polymer was only 0.3 wt %. However, the crosslinked polymer, which was far beyond or below the sol–gel transition point, had little influence on the elongational viscosity as well as the shear viscosity. The stretching of the chain sections between the crosslink points was responsible for the strain‐hardening behavior. © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Polym Sci B: Polym Phys 39: 228–235, 2001     

Relaxation phenomena of hydrolyzed polyvinylamine molecules adsorbed at the silica/water interface II. Saturated heterogeneous polymer layers

Surface area exclusion chromatography (SAEC) was employed to determine the individual relaxation of polymer molecules within a saturated heterogeneous layer composed of two polymers of different molecular characteristics. The investigations focused on three systems differing in molecular weight and/or hydrolysis grade. The molecular relaxation process was determined to be different within the heterogeneous layer when compared with the behavior of the same polymer in the homogeneous layer. The modifications in the relaxation process of a given polymer were imposed by the interfacial characteristics of the second polymer. Finally, in heterogeneous layers, the relative variation of the interfacial area of the two polymers is expressed in a single relationship.     

Matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry for the analysis of polydienes

An analytical method based on matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization (MALDI) time-of-flight mass spectrometry has been developed to provide information on oligomer structure, average molecular weight, and molecular weight distributions of polydienes (e.g., polybutadiene and polyisoprene), an important class of industrial polymers. This MALDI method involves the use of all-trans-retinoic acid as the matrix, copper (II) nitrate as the cationization reagent, and tetrahydrofuran as the solvent. The incorporation of this copper salt generates Cu⁺ adducts with the polymer chains. It also improves the signal strength and extends the upper mass range when used with all-trans-retinoic acid, as compared to silver nitrate. With this formulation, it is demonstrated that polybutadienes of narrow polydispersity with masses up to 300,000 u and polyisoprenes of narrow polydispersity with masses up to 150,000 u can be analyzed. The upper molecular weight limit is set by the requirement of using higher matrix-to-polymer ratios with increasing polymer molecular weight, to the point where the instrument can no longer detect the small quantity of polymer present in the matrix host. It is also shown that this sample preparation generates previously unreported adduction behavior. The practical implications of this adduction behavior on polymer structural analysis, accuracy of molecular weight determination, and the upper molecular weight limit of oligomer resolution are discussed. It is illustrated that, in a linear time-lag focusing MALDI instrument, oligomer resolution can be obtained for polydienes with molecular weights up to 24,000, providing structural confirmation of the end-groups and the repeat unit. The average molecular weights of a number of polydienes of narrow polydispersity determined by MALDI are compared to those obtained by gel permeation chromatography, and discrepancies are noted.     

MELTING AND CRYSTALLIZATION BEHAVIOR OFAN AROMATIC POLY (AZOMETHINE ETHER) WITH NON-LINEARLY SHAPED MOLECULAR CONFORMATIONS

The melting and crystallization behavior have been investigated for an aromatic poly(azomethine ether) with non-linearly shaped molecular conformations. This polymer wasfound to undergo multiple melting processes and its phase transition behavior wasinfluenced sensitively by the thermal history of sample. A significant difference between thepolymer chain aggregation abilities of samples cooled from the different states wasobserved. The possible molecular morphology and aggregation models for describing thestructures of this polymer were proposed and discussed. The crystallization behavior of thesamples cooled from the partially isotropic state and the influence of cooling rate on it havealso been examined with DSC.     

碱对聚丙烯酰胺的分子形态及其流变性的影响

在碱、活性剂、聚合物三元(ASP)复合驱提高石油采收率的技术中,由于碱与聚合物分子的不相容性,严重地影响着驱油配方体系的研究及复合驱技术的推广.针对大庆油田的情况,利用HAAK流变仪,系统地研究了复合体系的流变性.结果表明,碱的加入明显地破坏了ASP复合体系的粘弹性.利用原子力显微镜,研究了碱对聚合物分子形态的影响.在无碱条件下,聚合物分子在液相充分舒展,而加入碱造成聚合物分子蜷缩,碱浓度越高,聚丙烯酰胺分子蜷缩成的线团越紧凑.在低浓度碱溶液中（质量分数0.3％）,聚合物分子也不能完全舒展,而是以多个分子侧向聚集状态存在.     

Oil core/polymer shell microcapsules by internal phase separation from emulsion droplets. II: controlling the release profile of active molecules

Microcapsules with oil cores and solid polymer shells have been prepared by precipitation of the polymer from the internal phase of an oil-in-water emulsion. The dispersed phase consists of a polymer, a good solvent for the polymer (dichloromethane), and a poor solvent for the polymer (hexadecane). Removal of the good solvent results in phase separation of the polymer within the emulsion droplet, leading to the formation of a polymeric shell surrounding the poor solvent. A UV-active organic molecule is added to the oil phase prior to emulsification. Provided this molecule has some water solubility, the release profile of the molecule from the capsule can be determined. While the microcapsule size was kept approximately constant, the influence of a wide range of factors on the release profile has been studied. These include the type and molecular weight of the shell-forming polymer, the molecular weight of the active ingredient molecule, the shell thickness, the use of copolymers or polymer blends to form the shell, the effect of cross-linking the shell or heating the capsule to temperatures above the T(g) value of the polymer after the shell has been formed, and the effect of changes in the pH of the release solution in the case when a weak polyelectrolyte is used as the shell polymer. The differences in behavior are discussed in terms of the properties of the polymer shell, in particular the thickness, the polymer/release molecule interaction, and the free volume/porosity. Variation of these parameters allows one to control both the final release yield and the rate of release for time periods between a few hours and days.