par Hilles, Hani M.;Sferrazza, Michele ;Monroy, Francisco;Ortega, Francisco;Rubio, Ramón G.
Référence The Journal of Chemical Physics, 125, 7, 074706
Publication Publié, 2006
Article révisé par les pairs
Résumé : The surface pressure of monolayers of insoluble diblock copolymers has been measured. One of the blocks is made of poly(t-butyl acrylate) (PtBA), and the other one by polystyrene (PS). The interface is a good solvent for PtBA, while it is a poor solvent for PS. For the sake of comparison, monolayers of a PtBA homopolymer (good solvent conditions) and of poly(4-hydroxy styrene) (P4HS) (poor solvent conditions) have been also measured. It has been found that the relative length of the blocks plays an important role on the shape of the surface pressure Π versus surface concentration Γ curves and also on the shape of the equilibrium compressibility versus Γ curves. However, it does not affect the maximum value of Π reached at high Γ's. Surprisingly, the ellipsometric thickness of the copolymer monolayers is almost independent of the relative length of the blocks. The dynamics of the monolayers has been studied by step compression and by surface-light scattering techniques. When Mw,PtBA≫Mw,PS single exponential relaxations are observed. However, stretched exponentials are obtained for Aw,PS≥Mw,PtBA. The relaxation times decrease with increasing Γ for all the copolymers studied. This is the behavior usually found for poor solvent conditions (P4HS) and opposite to that found for homopolymers under good solvent conditions [PtBA, poly(vinylacetate)]. This means that the solvent quality of the interface does not determine the pressure dependence of τ. The elasticity modulus of the monolayers in the kilohertz range takes values that are similar to those of the high-frequency limit of the relaxation experiments. This means that the relaxation processes have characteristic frequencies below 1 Hz. © 2006 American Institute of Physics.

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