Intermacromolecular complexation due to specific interactions. 6. Miscibility and complexation between Poly
Styrene-co-[p-(2-Hydroxypropan-2-yl)Styrene]
and poly[n-butyl Methacrylate-co-(4-vinylpyridine)]
Authors:
Lei Zhu a;
Ming Jiang a;
Lu Liu a;
Hui Zhou a;
Lijuan Fan a;
Van Zhang a;
Yubao Zhang b;
Chi Wu b
| Affiliations: | a Institute of Macromolecular Science and Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Fudan University, Shanghai, China |
| b Departaient of Chemistry, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong |
DOI:
10.1080/00222349808212418
Publication Frequency:
6 issues per year
Published in:
Journal of Macromolecular Science, Part B,
Volume
37,
Issue
6
November
1998
, pages 805
- 826
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Abstract
In recent years, considerable attention has been focused on polymer miscibility and Complexation due to hydrogen bonding. Monodisperse, proton-donating polystyrene (PS), that is, poly
styrene-co-[p-(2-hydroxypropan-2-yl)styrene] [PS(t-OH)], was synthesized via chemical modification of polystyrene. Poly[n-butyl methacrylate-co-(4-vinylpyridine)] (BVPy), as a proton acceptor, was prepared by free-radical copolymerization of the corresponding monomers at low conversion. In organic solutions of PS(t-OH)/BVPy blends, viscometry was employed to study the Complexation behavior. Solvents with different proton-accepting abilities were used and hence proved to exert distinctive effects on solution complexation. In very dilute solutions, the complex aggregate was observed by static and dynamic light scattering (LS). Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) investigation proved that miscibility could be greatly enhanced when a small amount of hydrogen bonding was introduced into the originally immiscible PS/PBMA (polybutyl methacrylate) system. Although it was found that the Tg of the hydrogen-bonding polymer complexes occurred at higher temperatures with respect to linear weight-average value, DSC measurement alone could not accurately distinguish polymer complexes from ordinary miscible blends. Based on the data of miscibility from DSC and complexation from vis-cometry in 1,2-dichloroethane for a few tens of blends, which cover broad ranges of the contents of interaction sites, a map showing the immiscibility-miscibility-complexation transitions by strengthening the hydrogen bonding for the system of PS(t-OH)/BVPy was successfully constructed.
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styrene-co-[p-(2-hydroxypropan-2-yl)styrene]
[PS(t-OH)], was synthesized via chemical modification of polystyrene. Poly[n-butyl methacrylate-co-(4-vinylpyridine)] (BVPy), as a proton acceptor, was prepared by free-radical copolymerization of the corresponding monomers at low conversion. In organic solutions of PS(t-OH)/BVPy blends, viscometry was employed to study the Complexation behavior. Solvents with different proton-accepting abilities were used and hence proved to exert distinctive effects on solution complexation. In very dilute solutions, the complex aggregate was observed by static and dynamic light scattering (LS). Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) investigation proved that miscibility could be greatly enhanced when a small amount of hydrogen bonding was introduced into the originally immiscible PS/PBMA (polybutyl methacrylate) system. Although it was found that the Tg of the hydrogen-bonding polymer complexes occurred at higher temperatures with respect to linear weight-average value, DSC measurement alone could not accurately distinguish polymer complexes from ordinary miscible blends. Based on the data of miscibility from DSC and complexation from vis-cometry in 1,2-dichloroethane for a few tens of blends, which cover broad ranges of the contents of interaction sites, a map showing the immiscibility-miscibility-complexation transitions by strengthening the hydrogen bonding for the system of PS(t-OH)/BVPy was successfully constructed.
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