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Effect of side-chain asymmetry on the intermolecular structure and order-disorder transition in alkyl-substituted polyfluorenes

Knaapila, M. LU ; Stepanyan, R. ; Torkkeli, M. ; Haase, D. LU ; Fröhlich, N. ; Helfer, A. ; Forster, M. and Scherf, U. (2016) In Physical Review E: covering statistical, nonlinear, biological, and soft matter physics 93(4).
Abstract

We study relations among the side-chain asymmetry, structure, and order-disorder transition (ODT) in hairy-rod-type poly(9,9-dihexylfluorene) (PF6) with two identical side chains and atactic poly(9-octyl-9-methyl-fluorene) (PF1-8) with two different side chains per repeat. PF6 and PF1-8 organize into alternating side-chain and backbone layers that transform into an isotropic phase at TODT(PF6) and TbiODT(PF1-8). We interpret polymers in terms of monodisperse and bidisperse brushes and predict scenarios TODT<TbiODT and TODT∼TbiODT for high and low grafting densities (the side-chain length above or below the average grafting distance). Calorimetry and x-ray scattering indicate the condition TODT(PF6)∼TbiODT(PF1-8) following the low... (More)

We study relations among the side-chain asymmetry, structure, and order-disorder transition (ODT) in hairy-rod-type poly(9,9-dihexylfluorene) (PF6) with two identical side chains and atactic poly(9-octyl-9-methyl-fluorene) (PF1-8) with two different side chains per repeat. PF6 and PF1-8 organize into alternating side-chain and backbone layers that transform into an isotropic phase at TODT(PF6) and TbiODT(PF1-8). We interpret polymers in terms of monodisperse and bidisperse brushes and predict scenarios TODT<TbiODT and TODT∼TbiODT for high and low grafting densities (the side-chain length above or below the average grafting distance). Calorimetry and x-ray scattering indicate the condition TODT(PF6)∼TbiODT(PF1-8) following the low grafting prediction. PF6 side chains coming from the alternating backbone layers appear as two separate layers with thickness H(PF6), whereas PF1-8 side chains appear as an indistinguishable bilayer with a half thickness Hbilayer(PF1-8)/2≈H(PF6). The low grafting density region is structurally possible but not certain for PF6 and confirmed for PF1-8.

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  author       = {{Knaapila, M. and Stepanyan, R. and Torkkeli, M. and Haase, D. and Fröhlich, N. and Helfer, A. and Forster, M. and Scherf, U.}},
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  title        = {{Effect of side-chain asymmetry on the intermolecular structure and order-disorder transition in alkyl-substituted polyfluorenes}},
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