Chemistry Publications
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-13-2017
Journal
Langmuir
Volume
33
Issue
51
First Page
14738
Last Page
14747
URL with Digital Object Identifier
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.7b03010
Abstract
The ability to manipulate block copolymers on the nanoscale has led to many scientific and technological advances. These include nano-scale ordered bulk and thin films and also solution phase components, these are promising materials for making smaller ordered electronics, selective membranes, and also biomedical applications. The ability to manipulate block copolymer material architectures on such small scales has risen from thorough investigations into the properties that affect the architectures. Polyelectrolytes are an important class of polymers that are used to make amphiphilic block copolymers. In this context the authors synthesized polystyrene-b-polyphosphonium block copolymers with different anions coordinated to the polyphosphonium block in order to study the effect of the anion on the aqueous self-assembly of the polymers. The anions play an important role in the solubility of the monomeric materials which results in differences in the self-assembly observed through dynamic light scattering and transmission electron microscopy.
Notes
“This document is the Accepted Manuscript version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in Langmuir, copyright © American Chemical Society after peer review and technical editing by the publisher. To access the final edited and published work see https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.langmuir.7b03212”