Morphology and tensile properties of multigraft copolymers with regularly spaced tri-, tetra-, and hexafunctional junction points
Morphology and tensile properties of multigraft copolymers with regularly spaced tri-, tetra-, and hexafunctional junction points
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10.1021/ma060067s
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发表时间:
2006-05
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5.5
通讯作者:
Yuqing Zhu;Engin Burgaz;S. Gido;U. Staudinger;R. Weidisch;David M Uhrig;J. Mays
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Yuqing Zhu;Engin Burgaz;S. Gido;U. Staudinger;R. Weidisch;David M Uhrig;J. Mays
The effect of chain architecture on the morphological and tensile properties of series of multigraft copolymers, with regularly spaced tri-, tetra-, and hexafunctional junction points, was investigated using transmission electron microscopy (TEM), small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS), and tensile testing. The materials were synthesized by coupling difunctional polyisoprene (PI) spacers and living polystyrene (PS) branches, made by anionic polymerization, with chlorosilanes of different functionalities. Since the coupling process is a step-growth polymerization, yielding polydisperse products, fractionation was utilized to separate each material into three fractions (high, middle, and low molecular weight), each of low polydispersity. All three fractions have the same chain architecture on a per junction point basis but differ in the number of junction point units per molecule. By applying the constituting block copolymer concept, the physical behavior of these molecules was compared with current theories. ...