Microphase separation of cationic poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) copolymers in water: Effect of the migration of charges |
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Authors: | Bruno Jean Georges Bokias Lay-Theng Lee Ilias Iliopoulos Bernard Cabane |
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Institution: | Laboratoire Léon Brillouin (laboratoire mixte CEA-CNRS), CEA Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France, Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie Macromoléculaire, UMR 7615, ESPCI-CNRS-UPMC, 10 rue Vauquelin, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France, PMMH, ESPCI, 10 rue Vauquelin, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France,
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Abstract: | The structures of aqueous copolymer solutions have been examined through small angle neutron scattering. The copolymers contained mostly N-isopropylacrylamide (NIPAM) monomers. Poly (NIPAM) solutions have a lower critical solution temperature (LCST), above which the macromolecules separate from water. A small fraction of ionizable N,N-(dimethylamino) propyl] methacrylamide (MADAP) monomers was introduced into the macromolecules. This had dramatic consequences on the solution behavior at temperatures above the LCST of PNIPAM, where phase separation would have been expected for the homopolymer. When all MADAP monomers were ionized, it was found that the solutions resisted the phase separation. At short spatial scales, the chains were collapsed but at large scales they formed branched aggregates that did not separate out of water. When only half of the MADAP monomers are ionized, the electrical charges were able to redistribute themselves along the chains. In this case, the rise in temperature caused a microphase separation where the electrical charges were relocated on a fraction of the chains that remained in solution.The other chains (or section of chains) formed large nodules of a polymer rich phase. |
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