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MACROMOLECULES
Volume 47, Issue 16, Pages 5711-5718Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ma500633b
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- DFG [Pa771/7-1]
- DANSCATT (Danish Centre for the Use of Synchrotron X-ray and Neutron Facilities)
- NSF
- NIH/NIGMS via NSF [DMR-1332208]
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The reorientation of lamellae and the dependence of the lamellar spacing, D-lam, on polymer volume fraction, phi(p), D-lam proportional to phi(-beta)(p), in diblock copolymer thin films during solvent vapor annealing (SVA) are examined by combining white light interferometry (WLI) and grazing-incidence small-angle X-ray scattering (GISAXS). A thin film of lamellae-forming poly(styrene-b-butadiene) prepared by spin-coating features lamellae of different orientations with the lamellar spacing depending on orientation. During annealing with ethyl acetate (EAC) vapor, it is found that perpendicular lamellae behave differently from parallel ones, which is due to the fact that their initial lamellar thicknesses differ strongly. Quantitatively, the swelling process is composed of three regimes and the drying process of two regimes. The first two regimes of swelling are associated with a significant structural rearrangement of the lamellae; i.e., the lamellae first become thicker, and then perpendicular and randomly oriented lamellae vanish, which results in a purely parallel orientation at the end of the swelling process. The rearrangement is attributed to the increase of mobility of the polymer chains imparted by the solvent and to a decrease of total free energy of the thin film. In the third regime of swelling, the scaling exponent is found to beta = -0.32. During drying, the deswelling is nonaffine which may be a consequence of the increase of nonfavorable segmental interactions as the solvent is removed.
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