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Title
Japanese:Modifying the Interaction Parameters of a Linear ABC Triblock Terpolymer by Functionalizing the Short, Reactive Middle Block To Induce Morphological Change 
English:Modifying the Interaction Parameters of a Linear ABC Triblock Terpolymer by Functionalizing the Short, Reactive Middle Block To Induce Morphological Change 
Author
Japanese: Kevin Wylie, Lei Dong, Alvin Chandra, Yuta Nabae, Teruaki Hayakawa.  
English: Kevin Wylie, Lei Dong, Alvin Chandra, Yuta Nabae, Teruaki Hayakawa.  
Language English 
Journal/Book name
Japanese:Macromolecules 
English:Macromolecules 
Volume, Number, Page Vol. 53    No. 4    pp. 1293-1301
Published date Feb. 2020 
Publisher
Japanese:American Chemical Society 
English:American Chemical Society 
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Official URL https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.9b02567
 
DOI https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.9b02567
Abstract Using a tailorable poly(styrene-block-glycidyl methacrylate-block-methyl methacrylate) (PS-b-PGMA-b-PMMA) triblock terpolymer, the effect of changing the Flory窶滴uggins interaction parameters (ﾏ�) on the bulk self-assembly behavior of 12 linear ABC triblock terpolymers was investigated. By introducing different thiols to the short, reactive PGMA middle block, the experimental ﾏ②B and ﾏ③C could be arbitrarily altered, thereby changing the self-assembled morphologies that were characterized by small-angle X-ray scattering and transmission electron microscopy. Observed morphologies included lamellae, hexagonal cylinders, and tetragonal cylinders, which were found to be in close agreement with the expected morphologies obtained by self-consistent field theory simulation. Extending the 12 experimental results, 400 simulations were carried out to construct the ﾏ②B窶苫③C phase diagrams of the terpolymer at four different degrees of polymerization. The experimental and simulation results demonstrated that both the magnitude and the relation among each of the three interaction parameters are vital in determining the self-assembled morphology.

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