Search results for "Static light scattering"
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The influence of hydrophobic substitution on self-association of poly(ethylene oxide)-b-poly(n-alkyl glycidyl carbamate)s-b-poly(ethylene oxide) trib…
2007
Abstract A series of amphiphilic poly(ethylene oxide)-b-poly(n-alkyl glycidyl carbamate)s-b-poly(ethylene oxide) triblock copolymers were synthesized by reaction between poly(ethylene oxide)-b-polyglycidol-b-poly(ethylene oxide) precursor copolymer and four n-alkyl isocyanates: ethyl, propyl, butyl and pentyl. After dissolution in water at room temperature the copolymers spontaneously form micelles. The critical micellization concentrations were determined by UV–VIS spectroscopy. The dimensions of the micelles, the aggregation numbers, and in some cases the micellar shape were determined by dynamic and static light scattering in a relatively broad temperature range. Special attention has be…
Cylindrical Polymer Brushes with Elastin-Like Polypeptide Side Chains
2013
Monodisperse high molar mass elastin-like polypeptide macromonomers comprising 20 pentasequences (M = 8332 g/mol) were radically polymerized to high degrees of polymerization Pw = 590. Polymerization was conducted in water well above the lower phase transition temperature, i.e., in the phase separated regime. The resulting polymers adopt a cylindrical shape as demonstrated by AFM pictures of solutions spin-cast on mica. The directional persistence of the cylindrical brushes was determined by static light scattering to Kuhn statistical segments lengths lk = 120 nm at 5 mM aqueous NaCl solution which decreased to lk = 54 nm at 0.65 M NaCl. Upon polymerization the phase transition temperature …
Polymer induced changes of the crystallization scenario in suspensions of hard sphere like microgel particles
2012
We investigated the crystallization scenario of highly cross linked polystyrene particles dispersed in the good solvent 2-ethylnaphtalene and their mixtures with non-adsorbing low molecular weight polysterene polymer using time resolved static light scattering. The samples were prepared slightly below the melting volume fraction of the polymer free system. For the polymer free samples, we obtained polycrystalline solids via crystallization scenario known from hard sphere suspensions with little competition of wall crystal formation. Addition of non-adsorbing low molecular weight polystyrene polymer leads to a considerably slowing down of the bulk crystallization kinetics. We observed a dela…
Solution Properties of Polysarcosine: From Absolute and Relative Molar Mass Determinations to Complement Activation
2018
Polysarcosine (pSar) was one of the first polymers synthesized in a controlled living manner, but it was only recently when it was reconsidered as a promising alternative for poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) in biomedical applications. Despite receiving more and more attention, very little is known about the solution properties of pSar, such as coil dimensions and thermodynamic interactions. In this article, we report on these properties of pSar with degrees of polymerization 50 < X-n < 400 that were prepared by controlled living ring-opening polymerization. The polymers are characterized by gel permeation chromatography (GPC), MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry, dynamic and static light scattering (SL…
Origin of the low-frequency plateau and the light-scattering slow mode in semidilute poly(ethylene glycol) solutions
2019
A low-frequency plateau is often found in the rheological spectra of various kinds of semidilute solutions of polymers and other colloids; also, many such solutions have been reported to show slow-modes in their dynamic light scattering autocorrelation functions. Both these observations may lead to the hypothesis of weak associative network structures built by the dissolved polymer chains or colloidal building blocks. To challenge this hypothesis, we conduct a series of comparative studies on semidilute solutions of poly(ethylene glycol) by using classical rheology as well as passive microrheology based on dynamic light scattering, along with structural studies using static light scattering…
One-pot synthesis of poly(l-lactide) multi-arm star copolymers based on a polyester polyol macroinitiator
2013
Abstract Using a hyperbranched poly(glycolide) ( hb PGA) macroinitiator the synthesis of poly( l -lactide) (PLLA) multi-arm star polyesters has been achieved via a core-first approach. The star-shaped copolymers were prepared in a one-pot two-step process via Sn(Oct) 2 -catalyzed ring-opening polymerization (ROP) conducted in the melt. Complete conversion of the end groups of the hb polyglycolide polyester polyols is ensured by the reactive primary hydroxyl termini. By adjusting the monomer/initiator ratio a series of star copolymers with varying PLLA arm length has been obtained with molecular weights in the range of 1500 to 10,000 g/mol (SEC). The successful coupling of the PLLA arms to t…