화학공학소재연구정보센터
Macromolecules, Vol.31, No.18, 6077-6082, 1998
Structural relaxation of Langmuir-Blodgett films of poly(vinyl octanal acetal) with various tacticities
Poly(vinyl octanal acetal) (PVO) was prepared from poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) in which the main chain had three different tacticities and the stereoregularity was characterized by H-1 NMR spectroscopy. a-PVO prepared from atactic-PVA and s-PVO from syndiotactic-PVA had similar fractions of cis- and trans-acetals in the main chain, but i-PVO from isotactic-PVA had different ones. Ultrathin films of these polymers were prepared by the Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) technique, and the thermal relaxation of their multilayer structure was investigated by the energy-transfer method. When the LB films were composed of polymers which had a main chain with a similar stereostructure, the polymers were intermingled with each other by the thermal treatment and the onset of the diffusion of polymer segments was affected by the glass-transition temperature of the bulk. In contrast, the polymers with different stereostructures in each layer were not mixed with each other, but phase-separated, presumably forming droplets in the ultrathin films. It is concluded that the relaxation behavior of polymer LB films strongly reflects the stereoregularity of the sample polymers.