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MACROMOLECULES
卷 47, 期 5, 页码 1801-1809出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ma402590n
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- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology [24750066, 23700555, 25248037]
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [13J00449, 25248027, 23700555, 24750066] Funding Source: KAKEN
Tetra-PEG gels are classified to near-ideal networks with significantly low inhomogeneities, which were confirmed by small-angle neutron scattering (SANS). In this study, we systematically introduced two types of defects into Tetra-PEG gels and investigated effects of defects on structure. First, we prepared defect-rich networks by simply reducing prepolymer concentration, and observed the evolution of network structure by time-resolved SANS during gelation process. In this case, both the scattering intensity and the correlation length increased with reaction time in the phi < phi* region, while they scarcely changed in the phi > phi* region. Here, phi and phi* are the polymer volume fractions at observation and that at chain-overlap concentration, respectively. Second, we prepared p-tuned Tetra-PEG gels by tuning the reaction probability, p, and soaked them in water to expose the inhomogeneities. It was revealed that SANS profiles of as-prepared gels did not change noticeably, while those of swollen gels systematically changed with decreasing p. On the basis of these results, we discuss the relationship between the defects of polymer network and inhomogeneities by using simple schematic pictures of polymer network.
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