Incipient microphase separation in short chain perfluoropolyether-block-poly(ethylene oxide) copolymers
Abstract
Here, incipient microphase separation is observed by wide angle X-ray scattering (WAXS) in short chain multiblock copolymers consisting of perfluoropolyether (PFPE) and poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) segments. Two PFPE–PEO block copolymers were studied; one with dihydroxyl end groups and one with dimethyl carbonate end groups. Despite having a low degree of polymerization (N ~ 10), these materials exhibited significant scattering intensity, due to disordered concentration fluctuations between their PFPE-rich and PEO-rich domains. The disordered scattering intensity was fit to a model based on a multicomponent random phase approximation to determine the value of the interaction parameter, χ, and the radius of gyration, Rg. Over the temperature range 30–90 °C, the values of χ were determined to be very large (~2–2.5), indicating a high degree of immiscibility between the PFPE and PEO blocks. In PFPE–PEO, due to the large electron density contrast between the fluorinated and non-fluorinated block and the high value of χ, disordered scattering was detected at intermediate scattering angles, (q ~ 2 nm-1) for relatively small polymer chains. Finally, our ability to detect concentration fluctuations was enabled by both a relatively large value of χ and significant scattering contrast.
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- Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering; Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Materials Sciences Division
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Materials Sciences Division; Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
- Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC (United States). Dept. of Chemistry
- Adam Mickiewicz Univ. in Poznań (Poland). Faculty of Physics. NanoBioMedical Centre
- Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC (United States). Dept. of Chemistry; North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC (United States). Dept. of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Materials Sciences Division. Environmental Energy Technologies Division; Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
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- State Univ. of New York (SUNY), Syracuse, NY (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
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- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1597269
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- OSTI ID: 1474994
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- SC0012673; AC02-05CH11231
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- Journal Name:
- Soft Matter
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 13; Journal Issue: 22; Journal ID: ISSN 1744-683X
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- Royal Society of Chemistry
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- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; Wide angle X-ray scattering; Thermodynamics; Perfluoropolyether
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Chintapalli, Mahati, Timachova, Ksenia, Olson, Kevin R., Banaszak, Michał, Thelen, Jacob L., Mecham, Sue J., DeSimone, Joseph M., and Balsara, Nitash P. Incipient microphase separation in short chain perfluoropolyether-block-poly(ethylene oxide) copolymers. United States: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.1039/C7SM00738H.
Chintapalli, Mahati, Timachova, Ksenia, Olson, Kevin R., Banaszak, Michał, Thelen, Jacob L., Mecham, Sue J., DeSimone, Joseph M., & Balsara, Nitash P. Incipient microphase separation in short chain perfluoropolyether-block-poly(ethylene oxide) copolymers. United States. https://doi.org/10.1039/C7SM00738H
Chintapalli, Mahati, Timachova, Ksenia, Olson, Kevin R., Banaszak, Michał, Thelen, Jacob L., Mecham, Sue J., DeSimone, Joseph M., and Balsara, Nitash P. Thu .
"Incipient microphase separation in short chain perfluoropolyether-block-poly(ethylene oxide) copolymers". United States. https://doi.org/10.1039/C7SM00738H. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1597269.
@article{osti_1597269,
title = {Incipient microphase separation in short chain perfluoropolyether-block-poly(ethylene oxide) copolymers},
author = {Chintapalli, Mahati and Timachova, Ksenia and Olson, Kevin R. and Banaszak, Michał and Thelen, Jacob L. and Mecham, Sue J. and DeSimone, Joseph M. and Balsara, Nitash P.},
abstractNote = {Here, incipient microphase separation is observed by wide angle X-ray scattering (WAXS) in short chain multiblock copolymers consisting of perfluoropolyether (PFPE) and poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) segments. Two PFPE–PEO block copolymers were studied; one with dihydroxyl end groups and one with dimethyl carbonate end groups. Despite having a low degree of polymerization (N ~ 10), these materials exhibited significant scattering intensity, due to disordered concentration fluctuations between their PFPE-rich and PEO-rich domains. The disordered scattering intensity was fit to a model based on a multicomponent random phase approximation to determine the value of the interaction parameter, χ, and the radius of gyration, Rg. Over the temperature range 30–90 °C, the values of χ were determined to be very large (~2–2.5), indicating a high degree of immiscibility between the PFPE and PEO blocks. In PFPE–PEO, due to the large electron density contrast between the fluorinated and non-fluorinated block and the high value of χ, disordered scattering was detected at intermediate scattering angles, (q ~ 2 nm-1) for relatively small polymer chains. Finally, our ability to detect concentration fluctuations was enabled by both a relatively large value of χ and significant scattering contrast.},
doi = {10.1039/C7SM00738H},
journal = {Soft Matter},
number = 22,
volume = 13,
place = {United States},
year = {2017},
month = {5}
}
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