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具有可逆可调接枝密度的Polymer刷

Polymer brushes with reversibly tunable grafting density

Leonid I. Klushin, Alexander M. Skvortsov, Alexey A. Polotsky, Anna S. Ivanova, Friederike Schmid

摘要:

我们提出了一类新型的响应聚合物刷,其中有效的接枝密度可以通过外部刺激来控制。这通过使用对基底具有亲和力的末端接枝聚合物链来实现。对于足够强的表面相互作用,一部分链凝聚成近表面层,而其余的形成外刷。致密层和更纤细的外刷可以看作是共存的微相。外刷的有效接枝密度由吸附强度控制,并且可以响应于环境参数的变化而可逆地且以受控的方式改变。数值SCF计算和分析的缩放参数的效果表明。由于致密层的厚度约为几个单体尺寸,其形成微相的能力受到刷链长度和接枝密度的乘积的限制。我们探讨的范围内的链长和接枝密度的效果是最明显的。在这个范围内,SCF的研究表明,刷内的单个链显示出两个状态之间的大的快速波动,这两个状态之间的距离只有一个小的自由能垒。然而,刷子作为一个整体的行为并不反映这些大的波动,并且有效接枝密度作为控制参数的函数平滑地变化。

英文摘要:

We propose a novel class of responsive polymer brushes, where the effective grafting density can be controlled by external stimuli. This is achieved by using end-grafted polymer chains that have an affinity to the substrate. For sufficiently strong surface interactions, a fraction of chains condenses into a near-surface layer, while the remaining ones form the outer brush. The dense layer and the more tenuous outer brush can be seen as coexisting microphases. The effective grafting density of the outer brush is controlled by the adsorption strength and can be changed reversibly and in a controlled way as a response to changes in environmental parameters. The effect is demonstrated by numerical SCF calculations and analyzed by scaling arguments. Since the thickness of the denser layer is about a few monomer sizes, its capacity to form a microphase is limited by the product of the brush chain length and the grafting density. We explore the range of chain lengths and grafting densities where the effect is most pronounced. In this range, the SCF studies suggest that individual chains inside the brush show large rapid fluctuations between two states that are separated by only a small free energy barrier. The behavior of the brush as a whole, however, does not reflect these large fluctuations, and the effective grafting density varies smoothly as a function of the control parameters.

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