Trilayered Morphology of an ABC Triple Crystalline Triblock Terpolymer
Trilayered Morphology of an ABC Triple Crystalline Triblock Terpolymer
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DOI:
10.1021/acs.macromol.7b01576
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发表时间:
2017-09
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5.5
通讯作者:
Jordana K. Palacios;A. Tercjak;Guoming Liu;Dujing Wang;Junpeng Zhao;N. Hadjichristidis;A. Müller
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作者:
Jordana K. Palacios;A. Tercjak;Guoming Liu;Dujing Wang;Junpeng Zhao;N. Hadjichristidis;A. Müller
Triple crystalline triblock terpolymers are materials with remarkable semicrystalline superstructures. In this work, we report for first time the alternating triple lamellar morphology that self-assembles inside spherulites of a triblock terpolymer composed of poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO), poly(e-caprolactone) (PCL), and poly(l-lactide) (PLLA). The morphology of the PEO-b-PCL-b-PLLA triblock terpolymer is compared to an analogous PCL-b-PLLA diblock copolymer. Both diblock and triblock form a single phase in the melt. Two crystallization protocols were employed to create particular crystalline morphologies. In both cases, the isothermal crystallization of the PLA block is induced first (at 81 °C, a temperature above the melting points of both PCL and PEO blocks) and PLLA spherulites form a template, whereupon cooling the other two blocks can crystallize within the PLLA interlamellar spaces. WAXS analysis demonstrated the double crystalline and triple crystalline nature of the materials. The lamellar structur...