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Depth profile of the segmental dynamics at a poly(methyl methacrylate) film surface

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SOFT MATTER
卷 9, 期 39, 页码 9376-9384

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ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c3sm51658j

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  1. National Scientific Foundation of China [21174134]
  2. National Scientific Foundation of Zhejiang Province [Z4100463, Y13B040026]

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We investigated the segmental mobility distribution at the poly(methyl methacrylate) film surface within the depth of 9.0 nm, by measuring the surface reorganization of fluorinated tracer-labeled PMMA using three different surface-sensitive techniques with various analytical depth capabilities, including contact angle measurements, sum frequency generation (SFG) vibrational spectra and angle-resolved X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). The onset temperature of fluorinated chain end reorganization (T-onset) at various depths was identified and is shown to depend on the sampling depth of the techniques. The T-onset was verified to be related to the segmental relaxation of PMMA. Plotting the T-onset against the sensing depth of the corresponding technique, the distribution of surface T-onset within a 9.0 nm depth was obtained. An approximately 2.4 nm surface layer with depth-independent T-onset was found, below which the T-onset increased with increasing depth. The depth profile of T-onset effectively divides a film into three layers: a surface layer with Arrhenius dynamics on the uppermost film surface, a gradient region layer underneath the top layer transporting liquid-like dynamics into the internal film, and the remaining bulk layer. This observed depth profile of the surface dynamics may suggest that the polymer chains near the surface adopt an oblate conformation and have lowered entanglements.

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