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Well Ordered Polymer Melts from Blends of Disordered Triblock Copolymer Surfactants and Functional Homopolymers

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Vijay Tirumala, Alvin Romang, Sumit Agarwal, Eric K. Lin, J J. Watkins

Abstract

Here, we report that well ordered, processible polymer melts with periodic nanostructures can be obtained in bulk quantity by simple blending of commercially available triblock copolymer surfactants with a series of commodity homopolymers that selectively associate with one of blocks through hydrogen bonding. While the neat surfactants are disordered in the melt, scattering measurements indicate that the blends undergo a disorder-to-order transition to yield stable microphase separated structures. The results are general, and suggest a low cost, high volume strategy to produce ordered spherical, cylindrical, or lamellar microphase separated polymer melts for commercial use.
Citation
Advanced Materials
Volume
20
Pub Type
Journals

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Keywords

blends, block copolymer surfactants, melts, neutron scattering, pluronics, x-ray scattering
Materials and Nanomaterials

Citation

Tirumala, V. , Romang, A. , Agarwal, S. , Lin, E. and Watkins, J. (2008), Well Ordered Polymer Melts from Blends of Disordered Triblock Copolymer Surfactants and Functional Homopolymers, Advanced Materials, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=852721 (Accessed October 9, 2025)

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Created April 4, 2008, Updated February 19, 2017
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