Macromolecules, Vol.35, No.8, 3157-3163, 2002
Dynamic structure factor of diblock copolymer solutions in the disordered state. 2. Effect of composition polydispersity
The dynamic structure factor of entangled solutions of one symmetric and two asymmetric high molar mass styrene-b-ethylene-alt-propylene (SEP) and the parent styrene-b-isoprene (SI) diblock copolymers in the common solvent toluene was thoroughly studied by photon correlation spectroscopy. The incomplete hydrogenation transforms the I-block of SI into a random heteropolymer block. In turns out that this acts as enhanced composition polydispersity on both static and dynamic structure factor. In the mean-field regime of the disordered phase, the decay of the composition fluctuations in SI and SEP changes from a pure relaxational (q-independent rate) for SI to a pure diffusive (q(2)-dependent rate) character for SEP in a controlled way.