BCC Grain Formation Triggered by Miscibility Jump on Temperature Drop

Autor: Akifumi Matsushita, Eiko Tamura, Shigeru Okamoto, Tadashi Inoue
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Macromolecules. 48:1813-1823
ISSN: 1520-5835
0024-9297
DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.5b00024
Popis: Formation of a body-centered cubic (BCC) structure and grain growth process triggered by segregation-power jump on a temperature drop was studied by small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS), rheology, and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). Polystyrene-block-poly(ethylene-alt-propylene) (SEP) was dissolved in tridecyl-2,2,4-trimethyl hexanoate (salacos913) that was a practically neutral good solvent for both of polystyrene (PS) and PEP block chains at temperature above 84 °C (Tsol), while it was highly selective (good for PEP) below Tsol. Spherical microdomains in a short-range liquid-like order were formed above Tsol; the system was in the so-called “lattice disordered state”, designated as disordered sphere. The solution was annealed at a temperature (130 °C) above Tsol for 10 min and successively subjected to a temperature drop across Tsol. The system stayed in the lattice-disordered state for a certain induction period. During this induction period, stronger segregation power at the lower temperature ...
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