Université de Fribourg

a new level of hierarchical structure control by use of supramolecular self-assembled dendronized block copolymers

Li, Chaoxu ; Schlüter, Dieter A. ; Zhang, Afang ; Mezzenga, Raffaele

In: Advanced Materials, 2008, vol. 20, no. 23, p. 4530 - 4534

Complexation of dendronized block copolymers with sulfate alkyl tails forms unprecedented hierarchically ordered bulk structures, including rectangular-in-lamellar, tetragonal-in-lamellar, hexagonal-in-lamellar and lamellar-in-lamellar. These novel liquid-crystalline morphologies, which can be designed at low length scales in these systems, are expected to provide final materials with not only...

Université de Fribourg

Functional columnar liquid crystalline phases from ionic complexes of dendronized polymers and sulfate alkyl tails

Canilho, Nadia ; Kasëmi, Edis ; Schlüter, Dieter A. ; Ruokolainen, Janne ; Mezzenga, Raffaele

In: Macromolecular Symposia, 2008, vol. 270, no. 1, p. 58 - 64

We describe how cationic dendronized polymers of generations 1, and 2 and anionic monoalkyl tails can be combined by supramolecular ionic complexation into comb-like liquid crystalline polymers. The final structures in bulk of these supramolecular complexes were studied by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), cross-polarized optical microscopy (CPOM), small angle x-rays scattering (SAXS) and...