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Dynamics of solutions of triblock copolymers in a selective solvent: Effect of varying copolymer concentration

✍ Scribed by Cestmir Konak; Gerald Fleischer; Zdenek Tuzar; Rama Bansil


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2000
Tongue
English
Weight
190 KB
Volume
38
Category
Article
ISSN
0887-6266

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✦ Synopsis


We have used static and dynamic light scattering and pulsed field gradient NMR to study the effect of varying concentration on the dynamics of the triblock copolymer, polystyrene block poly(ethylene, butylene) block polystyrene (PS-PEB-PS), dissolved in n-heptane, a selective solvent for the middle block. The correlation function for a dilute solution with c Ο­ 0.49 % (w/v) corresponds to the translational diffusion of micelles. At intermediate concentrations [1.1 Υ… c Υ… 2.6 % (w/v)], the correlation functions can be fitted to the sum of a single exponential and stretched exponential functions. The slower mode is due to the diffusion of polydisperse clusters formed by random association of triblock copolymer molecules and the faster one again represents micelles. A complex behavior is observed in the semidilute region [4.0 Υ… c Υ… 6.9 % (w/v)]. Three dynamic processes can be extracted from the correlation function: (i) The fast diffusive mode is the collective diffusion mode in the physical gel, (ii) the middle, relaxational mode, is probably due to the local movement of insoluble domains trapped in the network of the physical gel, and (iii) the slow diffusive mode implies the existence of large-scale inhomogeneities in the system.


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