Lian Hutchings l.r.hutchings@durham.ac.uk
Academic Visitor
Film thickness effects on the distribution of high-molecular-weight heterotelechelic polymers
Hutchings, L.R.; Richards, R.W.; Thompson, R.L.; Bucknall, D.G.
Authors
R.W. Richards
Dr Richard Thompson r.l.thompson@durham.ac.uk
Associate Professor
D.G. Bucknall
Abstract
High-molecular-weight heterotelechelic deuteriopolystyrene, NDPSF, possessing an amine functional group at one end of the chain and a fluorocarbon group at the other was tethered to a silicon substrate by its amine functional group. These layers were coated with an unfunctionalised polystyrene matrix, HPS, such that the total film thickness covered a range from 2.2 to 9 times the radius of gyration of NDPSF. The detailed distribution of the polymers after annealing for times much greater than the reptation period of either of the components, was obtained using neutron reflectometry. No evidence for bridging of the two interfaces was found for the thicker films, but the finite concentration of the NDPSF polymer observed for the thinnest films may be due to bridging since the energy gain of the fluorocarbon end is just greater than the loss due to configurational entropy losses. A linear increase in the ellipsometric thickness of the excess of NDPSF at the substrate was discovered and we attribute this to the NDPSF slowly being leached out of the layer initially at the substrate followed by diffusion into the bulk of the film. The concentration profiles obtained are consistent with hindered relaxation of the large NDPSF molecules, when they are tethered at the substrate or at the vacuum surface.
Citation
Hutchings, L., Richards, R., Thompson, R., & Bucknall, D. (2002). Film thickness effects on the distribution of high-molecular-weight heterotelechelic polymers. The European Physical Journal E, 8(2), 121-128
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Publication Date | 2002-05 |
Journal | European Physical Journal E: Soft Matter and Biological Physics |
Print ISSN | 1292-8941 |
Electronic ISSN | 1292-895X |
Publisher | Springer |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 8 |
Issue | 2 |
Pages | 121-128 |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1602042 |
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