Structural Peculiarities of Triblock Copolymers Containing Poly(Ethylene Oxide) and Polyacrylamide

Autor: Tatyana Zheltonozhskaya, Sergey Fedorchuk, Yuriy Gomza, V.V. Klepko, S. D. Nessin, N. M. Permyakova
Rok vydání: 2008
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Zdroj: Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals. 497:268/[600]-281/[613]
ISSN: 1563-5287
1542-1406
DOI: 10.1080/15421400802463092
Popis: The morphology of the triblock copolymers (TBC) containing chemically complementary poly(ethylene oxide) (M vPEO = 3 · 103 ÷ 1 · 105) and polyacrylamide (M PAAm = 4.5 · 104 ÷ 9.07 · 105) of different chain lengths is studied. The loss of the PEO ability to crystallize in TBC at M vPEO ≤ 4 · 104 is established. At the same time, PEO blocks with M v = 1 · 105 form small crystalline domains in the TBC structure, but their crystallinity degree turns out to be by 2.8 times less than that in individual poly(ethylene oxide). A microphase separation in amorphous regions of the TBC structure at high values of M PAAm is revealed. It is shown that the main reason for the effects observed is the formation of a complex between PEO and PAAm blocks by hydrogen bonds.
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