화학공학소재연구정보센터
Macromolecules, Vol.43, No.7, 3465-3478, 2010
Non-Centrosymmetric Lamellar Structures in the Associating Blends of Tri- and Diblock Copolymers
We consider lamellar morphologies in the mixtures of AC diblock and ABC triblock copolymers and show that a proper functionalization of the end blocks of the triblock and diblock copolymer chains by donor and acceptor functional groups, respectively, could result in occurrence of the thermodynamically stable non-centrosymmetric lamellar structures in such mixtures. Depending on the chemical nature of the donor-acceptor bond (i.e., the values of the effective entropy S-bound and energy E per one bond), the typical phase diagrams could contain the upper and lower triple points where the pure diblock, pure triblock and noncentrosymmetric lamellae of a finite composition coexist. With increase of the association strength the triple points merge and the noncentrosymmetric lamellae become thermodynamically favorable at all temperatures. The boundary on the (S-bond, E)-plane, which separates the regions corresponding to different types of the phase behavior, is found. The influence of the architecture of the system and the chemical nature of the donor-acceptor bond on the stability of the noncentrosymmetric lamellae is analyzed and typical phase diagrams are presented.