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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B
Volume 112, Issue 11, Pages 3300-3310Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp7099527
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- Division Of Chemistry [0718755] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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This work shows that low charge density poly(p-phenylene-ethynylene)s (PPE-SO3Na-L and PPE-CO2Na-L), which feature sulfonate and carboxylate groups on every other-phenyl ring, form aggregates in water, whereas high charge density poly(p-phenylene-ethynylene)s (PPE-SO3Na-H and PPE-CO2Na-H), which possess sulfonate or carboxylate groups on every phenyl ring, do not aggregate in water. The formation of aggregates of PPE-SO3Na-L and PPE-CO2Na-L is demonstrated by comparing the concentration and temperature dependence of their steady-state spectra in water to that in DMSO, in which the two polymers do not aggregate. For the weak polyelectrolytes PPE-CO2Na-H and PPE-CO2Na-L, the solution pH was changed to vary the charge density. In addition, the cationic surfactant, octadecyltrimethyl ammonium, is shown to dissociate the low charge density polymer aggregates and to form supramolecular complexes with each of the different polyelectrolytes. Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy was applied to provide insight into the sizes of aggregates under different solution conditions.
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