Light scattering from dilute diblock copolymers in semidilute homopolymer solutions

Autor: James W Klein, Claude Cohen
Rok vydání: 1993
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Zdroj: Polymer. 34:4186-4192
ISSN: 0032-3861
DOI: 10.1016/0032-3861(93)90175-a
Popis: We investigate the small-angle light scattering from dilute polystyrene (PS)-poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) diblock copolymers in semidilute isorefractive PDMS/tetrahydrofuran (THF) solutions. We compare the results with those obtained on PS/PDMS homopolymer mixtures and analyse the data quantitatively in terms of the only available theoretical results based on the mean-field approach. We also obtain measurements of diffusion coefficients of probe PS molecules and probe PS-PDMS diblock molecules in semidilute PDMS/THF solutions by dynamic light scattering and show the different coupling that occurs between the probe molecule and the semidilute matrix.
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