Defect orientation on the chain folded surfaces of two-arm poly(ethylene oxide) lamellar crystals

Autor: Ian Mann, Gi Xue, Song-Wook Lee, Bon-Suk Moon, Er-Qiang Chen, Frank W. Harris, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Shi Jin
Rok vydání: 1999
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Zdroj: Macromolecular Rapid Communications. 20:431-434
ISSN: 1521-3927
1022-1336
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1521-3927(19990801)20:8<431::aid-marc431>3.0.co;2-r
Popis: Two-arm poly(ethylene oxide) fractions (PEOs) with arm lengths of 2 220 g/mol were synthesized via a reaction using terephthaloyl (1,4-), isophthaloyl (1,3-) and phthaloyl (1,2-) dichorides as coupling agents. The center of each molecule thus includes a phenylene group as a configurational defect, and they are excluded to the crystal folded basal surfaces. In the lamellar crystals with the once-folded overall molecular conformation, observations of surface-enhanced Raman scattering experiments show that only the in-plane vibration modes are selectively enhanced. This implies that the arrangement of phenylene groups adopts a “stand-up” orientation on the basal surface, i. e., the π plane of phenylene groups in the defects is perpendicular to the lamellar basal surface.
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