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Self-assembly of rod-coil block copolymers from weakly to moderately segregated regimes

Sary, N. ; Brochon, C. ; Hadziioannou, G. ; Mezzenga, R.

In: The European Physical Journal E, 2007, vol. 24, no. 4, p. 379-384

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    Titre
    • Self-assembly of rod-coil block copolymers from weakly to moderately segregated regimes
    Auteur
    • Sary, N.. Department of Physics and Fribourg Center for Nanomaterials, University of Fribourg, Ch. Musée 3, CH-1700, Fribourg, Switzerland
    • Brochon, C.. Laboratoire d'Ingénierie des Polymères pour les Hautes Technologies, UMR 7165, Université Louis Pasteur, Ecole Européenne de Chimie, Polymères et Matériaux, 25, Rue Becquerel, F-67087, Strasbourg, France
    • Hadziioannou, G.. Laboratoire d'Ingénierie des Polymères pour les Hautes Technologies, UMR 7165, Université Louis Pasteur, Ecole Européenne de Chimie, Polymères et Matériaux, 25, Rue Becquerel, F-67087, Strasbourg, France
    • Mezzenga, R.. Department of Physics and Fribourg Center for Nanomaterials, University of Fribourg, Ch. Musée 3, CH-1700, Fribourg, Switzerland
    Type de document
    • Postprint
    Langue
    • Anglais
    Publié dans
    • The European Physical Journal E, 2007, vol. 24, no. 4, p. 379-384. Società Italiana di Fisica
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    Identifiant OAI-PMH
    • oai:doc.rero.ch:318307
    Summary
    Abstract.: We report on the self-assembly behaviour of two homologue series of rod-coil block copolymers in which, the rod, a π -conjugated polymer, is maintained fixed in size and chemical structure, while the coil is allowed to vary both in molecular weight and chemical nature. This allows maintaining constant the liquid crystalline interactions, expressed by Maier-Saupe interactions, ω , while varying the tendency towards microphase separation, expressed by the product between the Flory-Huggins parameter and the total polymerization degree, χN . Therefore, the systems presented here allow testing directly some of the theoretical predictions for the self-assembly of rod-coil block copolymers in a weakly segregated regime. The two rod-coil block copolymer systems investigated were poly(DEH-p-phenylenevinylene-b-styrene), whose self-assembly takes place in the very weakly segregated regime, and poly(DEH-p-phenylenevinylene-b-4vinylpyridine), for which the self-assembly behaviour occurs under increased tendency towards microphase separation, hereby referred to as moderately segregated regime. Experimental results for both systems are compared with predictions based on Landau expansion theories