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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 130, Issue 29, Pages 9420-9428Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ja800897m
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The process of excimer formation was studied for a series of pyrene end-labeled polystyrenes (PS(X)-Py(2) where X is the polymer molecular weight equal to 3, 4.5, 8, 12.7, and 14.6 K) and two series of polystyrenes randomly labeled with pyrene (CoE-PS and CoA-PS) in seven different solvents. The solvent viscosities ranged from 0.41 to 1.92 mPa.s, while the solvent quality ranged from good to poor solvents for polystyrene, as determined by intrinsic viscosity measurements. Steady-state fluorescence spectra of the pyrene-labeled polymers were acquired, and the excimer to monomer ratios showed that excimer formation increased strongly with a decrease in solvent viscosity. The monomer and excimer time-resolved fluorescence decays were also acquired and fitted globally to either the Birks' scheme or the fluorescence blob model (FBM) for the end- or randomly labeled polymers, respectively. All parameters reporting on the long-range polymer chain dynamics (LRPCD) obtained from the analysis of the fluorescence data acquired with the PSO(X)-Py(2), CoE-PS, and CoA-PS series yielded virtually identical trends, demonstrating that these fluorescence experiments yield results that are internally consistent with one another. Considering the substantial advantages associated with the preparation and study of randomly labeled polymers, this report presents an appealing case for the use of randomly labeled polymers in the study of LRPCD.
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