To Reveal the Importance of the Crystallization Sequence on Micro-Morphological Structures of All-Crystalline Polymer Blends by In Situ InvestigationShow others and affiliations
2021 (English)In: ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, ISSN 1944-8244, E-ISSN 1944-8252, Vol. 13, no 18, p. 21756-21764Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
In crystalline/crystalline polymer blend systems, complex competition and coupling of crystallization and morphology usually happen due to the different crystal nucleation and growth processes of polymers, making the morphology and crystallization behavior difficult to control. Herein, we probe the crystallization sequence during the film formation process (crystallize simultaneously, component A crystallizes prior to B or inverse) to illustrate the micro-morphology evolution process in poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) and poly[[N,N-bis(2-octyldodecyl)-napthalene-1,4,5,8-bis(dicarboximide)-2,6-diyl]- alt-5, 5-(2,2-bithiophene)] (N2200) blend using in situ UV-vis absorption spectra and in situ two-dimensional grazing incidence X-ray diffraction (2D GIXRD). When P3HT and N2200 crystallize simultaneously, a large-sized morphology structure is formed. When strengthening the solution aggregation of P3HT by increasing the solvent-polymer interaction, P3HT crystallizes prior to N2200. A P3HT-based micro-morphology structure is obtained. As the molecular weight of N2200 increases to a critical value (72.0 kDa), the crystallization of N2200 dominates the film formation process. A N2200-based micro-morphology is formed guided by N2200 domains. The results confirm that the crystallization sequence is one of the most important factors to determine the micromorphology structure in all-crystalline polymer blends.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
AMER CHEMICAL SOC , 2021. Vol. 13, no 18, p. 21756-21764
Keywords [en]
polymer blends; crystallization sequence; nucleation and growth; micro-morphology
National Category
Polymer Chemistry
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-176476DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c02984ISI: 000651750000082PubMedID: 33908242OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-176476DiVA, id: diva2:1566465
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Funding Agencies|National Natural Science Foundation of ChinaNational Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [51933010, 91833306]; Ministry of Science and Technology [2019YFA0705900]
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