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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B
卷 110, 期 9, 页码 3979-3989出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp055704f
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We have developed a new ternary polymeric system, poly(ethylene-alt-propylene) (PEP)/poly(butylene oxide) (PBO)/PEP-PBO, to study the complex phase behavior near the bicontinuous microemulsion phase channel. The molecular weights of the PEP and PBO homopolymers are 2600 and 3050 g/mol, respectively, and the copolymer is 23.4 kg/mol with volume fraction composition f(PBO) = 0.49. A combination of small-angle neutron scattering, small-angle X-ray scattering, rheology, optical microscopy, and visual oil bath measurements was employed to map out the phase diagrams at five fixed homopolymer PBO/PEP ratios, ranging from 40/60 to 60/40 by volume, with copolymer concentrations ranging from 0 to 100%. It was found that the bicontinuous microemulsion channel is consistently cut off at low temperature by a hexagonal phase. We attribute this phenomenon to the effect of the conformational asymmetry between the PEP and PBO species, whereby the more flexible PBO component induces a spontaneous curvature toward the PBO domains. These findings complement previous descriptions of the isopleth phase diagrams for A/B/A-B systems and identify a new design variable for preparing bicontinuous phases.
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