Highly ordered and stable layered "polymer nanosheets" constructed with amorphous side chains and pi-pi stacking of functional groups in ternary comb copolymers

The Journal of Physical Chemistry. B
Atsuhiro FujimoriYukio Ouchi

Abstract

We have developed a highly stable, layered structure for ternary copolymers in Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) films at a nanometer scale, with substantial durability over the long-term. In these ternary copolymer LB films, amorphous side chains support the layered structure, and the distance between the layers is controlled at the nanometer scale by the composition of hydrogenated and fluorinated side chains. In the present study, the fine structures of newly synthesized ternary comb copolymers with a carbazole ring in the solid state and molecular orientations in the LB films were investigated using wide-angle X-ray diffraction (WAXD), small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS), surface pressure-area (pi-A) isotherms, in-plane and out-of-plane X-ray diffraction (XRD), and atomic force microscopy (AFM). The WAXD results identified two short-spacing peaks related to the formation of the subcells for both the fluorinated and hydrogenated side chains. Further, SAXS measurements indicated that these ternary copolymers formed a highly ordered layer structure. In addition, monolayers on the water surface of these ternary copolymers were highly condensed. From the results of in-plane XRD and AFM, it was determined that the side chains and side-chain...Continue Reading

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