Equilibrium structure of hydrogen-bonded polymer blends

✍ Scribed by Chunlin Zhou; Erik K. Hobbie; B. J. Bauer; Charles C. Han

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 255 KB
• Volume: 36
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0887-6266
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-0488(19981115)36:15<2745::aid-polb8>3.0.co;2-8

✦ Synopsis

Deuterium-labeled polystyrene modified by random distributions of the comonomer p- (1,1,1,3,3,3-hexaflouro-2-hydroxyisopropyl)-␣-methyl-styrene [DPS(OH)] has been blended with poly(butyl methacrylate) (PBMA) and studied with small-angle neutron scattering (SANS). Miscibility is induced via hydrogen bonding between the DPS(OH) hydroxyl group and PBMA carbonyl groups. The data suggest that the nature of the miscible-phase structure in these blends differs from that of the usual homopolymer blends at small scattering angles, which we attribute to the short-range site specific nature of the hydrogen bond interaction.