화학공학소재연구정보센터
Macromolecules, Vol.30, No.15, 4342-4346, 1997
Dynamics in Solutions of Associating Statistical Copolymers
The association of styrene-methyl methacrylate statistical copolymers in the selective solvent acetone (a thermodynamically good solvent for poly(methyl methacrylate and bad for polystyrene) was examined by static and dynamic light scattering methods. In dilute solutions, the dynamics was dominated by a single fast mode, whereas in semidilute solutions two modes were generally seen, with fast and slow mean relaxation times. The fast dynamic mode was related to the cooperative diffusion mode. The slow mode was associated with dynamics of polymeric clusters formed by the random association process. Experimental results were interpreted in terms of the coupling model of partly penetrating polydispersed clusters formed by random association of copolymers.