화학공학소재연구정보센터
Journal of Polymer Science Part B: Polymer Physics, Vol.37, No.10, 1009-1021, 1999
Periodic organic-organometallic microdomain structures in poly(styrene-block-ferrocenyldimethylsilane) copolymers and blends with corresponding homopolymers
A series of poly(styrene-block-ferrocenyldimethylsilane) copolymers (SF) with different relative molar masses of the blocks were prepared by sequential anionic polymerization. The bulk morphology of these polymers, studied by TEM and SAXS, showed well-ordered lamellar and cylindrical domains as well as disordered micellar structures. Temperature-dependent rheological measurements exhibited an order-disorder transition for SF 17/8 (the numbers refer to the relative molar masses in 10(3) g/mol) between 170 and 180 degrees C, and an order-order transition for SF 9/19 between 190 and 200 degrees C. The morphologies of binary blends of the diblocks with homopolymer were also investigated. In the blends the molar mass of the homopolymer was always less than the molar mass of the matching block. Ordered spheres on a bce lattice and double-gyroid morphology were observed for the blends. The double-gyroid morphology was found only in F-rich diblock/homopolymer systems.