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Meridional orientation in biaxially aligned thin films of hairy-rod polyfluorene

Knaapila, Matti LU ; Hase, Thomas P. A. ; Torkkeli, Mika ; Stepanyan, Roman ; Bouchenoire, Laurence ; Cheun, Hyeun-Seok ; Winokur, Michael J. and Monkman, Andrew P. (2007) In Crystal Growth & Design 7(9). p.1706-1711
Abstract
The uniaxial chain alignment and equatorial patterning of poly [9,9-bis(2-ethylhexyl)fluorene-2,7-diyl] (M-n = 29 kg/mol, M-w = 68 kg/mol) thin films atop rubbed polyimide substrates have been studied by grazing incidence X-ray diffraction. This specific molecular weight yields among the highest observed levels of chain alignment and optical anisotropy and, after thermal annealing, the sample undergoes transformation to a highly textured crystalline hexagonal phase. The two dominant equatorial orientations (i.e., types I and II crystallites) are found to have almost identical meridional orientation distributions. The X-ray deduced orientation is in quantitative agreement with that obtained by optical absorption measurements. It is also... (More)
The uniaxial chain alignment and equatorial patterning of poly [9,9-bis(2-ethylhexyl)fluorene-2,7-diyl] (M-n = 29 kg/mol, M-w = 68 kg/mol) thin films atop rubbed polyimide substrates have been studied by grazing incidence X-ray diffraction. This specific molecular weight yields among the highest observed levels of chain alignment and optical anisotropy and, after thermal annealing, the sample undergoes transformation to a highly textured crystalline hexagonal phase. The two dominant equatorial orientations (i.e., types I and II crystallites) are found to have almost identical meridional orientation distributions. The X-ray deduced orientation is in quantitative agreement with that obtained by optical absorption measurements. It is also shown that the equatorial ordering is paracrystalline in nature, and both type I and type II crystallites are similar in this respect. This equatorial scattering is superimposed on a background of a hexagonal phase polymer with a cylindrically isotropic orientation (type III). (Less)
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  abstract     = {{The uniaxial chain alignment and equatorial patterning of poly [9,9-bis(2-ethylhexyl)fluorene-2,7-diyl] (M-n = 29 kg/mol, M-w = 68 kg/mol) thin films atop rubbed polyimide substrates have been studied by grazing incidence X-ray diffraction. This specific molecular weight yields among the highest observed levels of chain alignment and optical anisotropy and, after thermal annealing, the sample undergoes transformation to a highly textured crystalline hexagonal phase. The two dominant equatorial orientations (i.e., types I and II crystallites) are found to have almost identical meridional orientation distributions. The X-ray deduced orientation is in quantitative agreement with that obtained by optical absorption measurements. It is also shown that the equatorial ordering is paracrystalline in nature, and both type I and type II crystallites are similar in this respect. This equatorial scattering is superimposed on a background of a hexagonal phase polymer with a cylindrically isotropic orientation (type III).}},
  author       = {{Knaapila, Matti and Hase, Thomas P. A. and Torkkeli, Mika and Stepanyan, Roman and Bouchenoire, Laurence and Cheun, Hyeun-Seok and Winokur, Michael J. and Monkman, Andrew P.}},
  issn         = {{1528-7483}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{9}},
  pages        = {{1706--1711}},
  publisher    = {{The American Chemical Society (ACS)}},
  series       = {{Crystal Growth & Design}},
  title        = {{Meridional orientation in biaxially aligned thin films of hairy-rod polyfluorene}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/cg0607295}},
  doi          = {{10.1021/cg0607295}},
  volume       = {{7}},
  year         = {{2007}},
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