The Effect of Polydispersity on the Self Assembly of Diblock Copolymers

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Block copolymers are of interest due to their ability to undergo microphase separation. Originally block copolymers were produced with a low polydispersity index (PDI) as they were made primarily through anionic polymerisation, which is a demanding and laborious technique. The recent development of controlled radical techniques such as atom transfer radical polymerisation (ATRP) and radical addition fragmentation chain transfer polymerisation (RAFT) opens up the possibility that production of a wide range of block copolymers will become economically viable in the future. ATRP and RAFT produced polymers have higher PDIs than their anionic counterparts. We will use deuterium labelling to study how these difference chain lengths locate themselves in the different morphologies present in block copolymers.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24079491
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24079491
Provenance
Creator Professor Patrick Fairclough
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2013
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2010-07-30T04:21:24Z
Temporal Coverage End 2010-07-31T11:11:31Z