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Conformational studies of bottle-brush polymers absorbed on a flat solid surface.

2010

The adsorption of a bottle-brush polymer end-grafted with one chain end of its backbone to a flat substrate surface is studied by Monte Carlo simulation of a coarse-grained model, that previously has been characterized in the bulk, assuming a dilute solution under good solvent conditions. Applying the bond fluctuation model on the simple cubic lattice, we vary the backbone chain length $N_b$ from $N_b=67$ to $N_b = 259$ effective monomeric units, the side chain length $N$ from N=6 to N=48, and the grafting density $\sigma=1$, i.e., parameters that correspond well to the experimentally accessible range. When the adsorption energy strength $\epsilon$ is varied, we find that the adsorption tra…

1979

The thermal degradation behavior of head-to-head (H-H) and head-to-tail (H-T) polystyrenes and poly(vinylcyclohexane)s has been investigated by direct pyrolysis in a mass spectrometer. Both H-H and H-T isomers show only small differences in their initial temperatures of decomposition but remarkably different degradation processes. Whereas H-T polystyrene decomposes in accordance with earlier investigations mainly by a radicalic depolymerization into the monomer and yields only a small amount of dimer and trimer, the H-H polystyrene shows no unzipping and only a statistic degradation into oligomeric styrenes. The formation of stilbene is a diagnostic reaction of H-H polystyrene. The pyrolysi…

Effective conjugation in conjugated polymers with strongly twisted backbones: A case study on fluorinated MEHPPV

2016

Conjugated polymers with strongly twisted backbones, such as MEHPPV with fluorinated vinylene units (F-MEHPPV), demand a redefinition of the all-important ‘effective conjugation length’ ECL, which we extract here by a facile graphical method. In MEHPPV (being essentially planar), the ECL coincides with the ‘maximum conducive chain length’ MCC and extends over about n ≈ 9 repetition units (RU). In F-MEHPPV, the MCC is similarly long with n ≈ 8, but the ECL localizes on just one RU. The strong twist in F-MEHPPV persists in the excited state, broadening the emission spectrum and quenching the fluorescence with reduced radiative and enhanced non-radiative rates.