“Ball at the wall” — A new lamellar multiphase morphology in a polystyrene-block-polybutadiene-block-poly(methyl methacrylate) triblock copolymer

Einfluss des polymerrückgrats auf eigenschaften von thermoplastischen elastomeren

4-Urazoyl benzoic acid groups were statistically attached to various hydrocarbon elastomers, polar elastomers and partially crystalline polymers via a polymer-analogous reaction. DSC, FTIR, stress-strain experiments and dynamic-mechanical analysis were used to analyse whether these systems, analogous to functionalized polybutadienes, would form ordered supra-molecular structures of the polar side-groups that would lead to a thermoreversible crosslinking. While the structure formation is suppressed for elastomers with a large cross-sectional area of the chain (e.g. butyl rubber) or polar side-groups, (e.g. polychloroprene), the mechanical propertie can be controlled by balancing supermolecul…

Surface reconstruction of the lamellar morphology in a symmetric poly(styrene-block-butadiene-block-methyl methacrylate) triblock copolymer: A tapping mode scanning force microscope study

The surface morphology of a symmetric poly(styrene-block-butadiene-block-methyl methacrylate) triblock copolymer (PS-b-PB-b-PMMA) with 6 wt % PB has been investigated by tapping mode scanning force microscopy (SFM). The results are compared to the bulk morphology as determined by transmission electron microscopy (TEM). In solvent-cast films PS/PMMA lamellae are formed, which are oriented nearly perpendicular to the free surface. Like in the bulk, also at the free film surface polybutadiene spheres are located at the lamellar PS/PMMA interface. However, contrary to the bulk, the surface morphology includes a large number of defects such as curved lamellar and disclinations, and the lamellar …