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CPP: Fachverband Chemische Physik und Polymerphysik

CPP 6: Crystallization, Nucleation and Self Assembly I (joint session CPP, DY)

CPP 6.5: Talk

Monday, March 16, 2015, 10:45–11:00, PC 203

Morphological development of poly(butadiene)-block-poly(ethylene oxide) during annealing — •Tobias N. Büttner¹, Stefan Hölzer², Robert Schulze¹, and Klaus D. Jandt¹ — ¹Chair of Materials Science (CMS), Otto Schott Institute of Materials Research, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Löbdergraben 32, 07743 Jena, Germany — ²Laboratory of Organic Chemistry and Macromolecular Chemistry (IOMC), Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Humboldtstraße 10, 07743 Jena, Germany

Nanostructures of semi-crystalline diblock copolymers (DBCP) can be tuned by controlled crystal thickening, whereby the knowledge of the mechanisms and kinetics is relevant for possible applications.

In the present study we tested the hypothesis that the morphological development of a poly(butadiene)-block-poly(ethylene oxide) depends on the kinetics of crystal thickening during annealing and can be described by combining time- and temperature-dependent X-ray scattering (SAXS) and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC).

Depending on the annealing temperature, three effects predominated: crystal thickening, thermal fractionation and complete melting. We investigated the absolute long period growth due to crystal thickening by SAXS measurements. In addition, DSC based crystal thickness distributions were used to explain the running processes during annealing. The combination of both methods enables the precise tailoring of DBCP nanostructures without changing the degree of polymerization.

Nanostructures with defined dimensions are interesting for nanotemplating applications, e.g. the biomedical field.