It has been shown that, under specific conditions, a demixing-solvent fractionation according to chemical composition can be applied to statistical copolymers. Formally, identical expressions have been derived for the distribution of a copolymer between coexisting phases in precipitation (sol-gel) a
Fractionation of a diblock copolymer in a demixing-solvent system
✍ Scribed by Jir̆í Podes̆va; Jaroslav Stejskal; Pavel Kratochvíl
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1993
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 887 KB
- Volume
- 49
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0021-8995
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✦ Synopsis
Phase behavior of a hydrogenated styrene / isoprene diblock copolymer in a dimethylformamide/methylcyclohexane demixing-solvent pair has been studied. At a fixed copolymer concentration (1% w/v), the scheme of phase behavior (temperature vs. mixed-solvent composition) of the system has been found to be complex, with several areas where various supramolecular structures are spontaneously formed. In a particular area of the scheme, a multistep demixing-solvent fractionation of the copolymer has been performed. The resulting fractions have been characterized and the data used to construct integral distribution functions of copolymer molar mass and copolymer composition. These functions have been compared with those obtained by a previously reported light-scattering characterization of the whole, unfractionated, nonhydrogenated precursor of the copolymer. 0 1993 John Wiley & Sons. Inc.
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