Stacking of main chain-crown ether polymers in thin films |
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Authors: | Rueda Daniel R Nogales Aurora Hernandez Jaime J García-Gutiérrez Mari-Cruz Ezquerra Tiberio A Roth Stephan V Zolotukhin Mikhail G Serna Rosalía |
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Institution: | Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, CSIC, Serrano 119, 28006, Madrid, Spain. emdaniel@iem.cfmac.csic.es |
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Abstract: | Thin films (9-70 nm) of a series of polymers containing in the main chain dibenzo-18-crown-6 ether unit (DB18C6) linked to an aliphatic spacer of different length (10C and 14C) and nature have been prepared, from chloroform solutions, by spin coating on a silicon substrate. The quality and homogeneity of the polymer coatings was revealed by their reflectivity spectra and atomic force microscopy (AFM). The grazing incidence small-angle X-ray scattering (GISAXS) patterns show an out-of-plane structure correlation (interference maximum near the horizon) of scale size related to the polymer repeating unit length. Above this Bragg reflection, the shape of the scattering observed, in the GISAXS pattern, reveals an orientation of the stacked molecular columns in the coated polymer. A thermal treatment of the samples improves the nanostructure by increasing the lamellar coherence size (in y-direction) as well as the vertical orientation of the molecular columns. |
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