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MACROMOLECULES
Volume 42, Issue 18, Pages 7146-7154Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ma900541x
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- Ministry of Science and Technology of China [2007CB936401]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [50773077]
- Hong Kong Special Administration [CUHK4037/07P, 2160331]
- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [20070420727]
- Croucher Foundation
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By using the Staudinger ligation to attach 4-{5'-{1 ''-(dimethylamino)-ethylideneamino}pentyl}-1-methyl-2-(diphenylphosphino)terephthalate to poly(p-azidomethylstyrene)-co-polystyrene (PAMS-co-PS), we Successfully prepared a novel polymer that can undergo a neutral-charged-neutral transition in DM F with 0.5% H2O when the solution is alternatively bubbled with CO2 and N-2. Such a reversible change is confirmed by its sharp conductivity variation. Armed with this polymer, we re-examined dynamics of salt-free polyelectrolyte dilute solutions by using laser light scattering (LLS). As expected, there exists only one diffusive relaxation mode in the neutral state. The bubbling Of CO2 decreases the scattering intensity and splits this initial diffusive relaxation mode into a fast and a slow diffusive mode, and their scattering intensity contributions are independent of the scattering angle, indicating that the slow mode is not related to some scattering objects larger than the LLS observation length (similar to 35 nm < 1/q < similar to 190 nm). The bubbling of N-2 gradually diminishes the slow mode and returns both the scattering intensity and solution dynamics back to their initial neutral state. The change from dilute to semidilute solution slows the fast relaxation down and suppresses the slow mode. On the other hand, the addition of LiBr (50 mM) can completely suppress electrostatic interaction.
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