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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Galanos, Eftyxis
• Steube, Marvin
• Butt, Hans-Juergen
• Frey, Holger
• Floudas, George

Titel

Ordering kinetics of a tapered copolymer based on isoprene and styrene

Ist Teil von

• The Journal of chemical physics, 2022-04, Vol.156 (13), p.134904-134904

Ort / Verlag

United States: American Institute of Physics

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Quelle

AIP Journals Complete

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• High molar mass copolymers with a tapered interface are mechanically tough materials with an accessible order-to-disorder transition temperature and hence processability. We report the first ordering kinetics for a tapered tetrablock copolymer in comparison to a conventional diblock copolymer made sequentially. We show that tapered copolymers belong to the Brazovskii “universality class,” where fluctuations play a dominant role. Consequently, the order-to-disorder transition has a very weak, fluctuation-induced first-order character. The ordering kinetics of the lamellar phase from the supercooled disordered melt revealed several distinct differences associated with the range of metastability (increased), the timescales (bimodal), and the exact mechanism of ordering. The results are discussed in terms of the reduced interaction parameter and the introduction of structural defects within the lamellar grains.