Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 35, Number 2, July II 1996
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Page(s) | 91 - 96 | |
Section | Atomic, molecular and optical physics | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i1996-00537-2 | |
Published online | 01 September 2002 |
Surfactant-induced mesomorphic structures in flexible polymers
1
Department of
Technical Physics, Helsinki University of Technology, Rakentajanaukio 2 C,
FIN-02150 Espoo, Finland
2
Department of Polymer Chemistry and Materials
Science Centre,
University of Groningen - Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG Groningen,
The Netherlands
Received:
30
October
1995
Accepted:
26
May
1996
During the last two years, mesomorphic structures for polyelectrolytes with ionically bound surfactants have been reported. This has now been extended to the case of hydrogen bonding. For poly (4-vinyl pyridine)-pentadecyl phenol ), the long period Lp of the lamellar structure is found to decrease as a function of x, in complete contrast to polyelectrolyte systems. Scaling arguments predict that the x-dependence of the long period is entirely due to the reduction in the thickness of the polymer layer and satisfies , as observed experimentally. Polyelectrolyte-surfactant complexes, on the other hand, are always locally fully complexed due to cooperative complexation with a corresponding x-independent long period.
PACS: 36.20.-r – Macromolecules and polymer molecules / 64.60.Cn – Order-disorder and statistical mechanics of model systems / 64.75.+g – Solubility, segregation, and mixing
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