应用化学 ›› 2025, Vol. 42 ›› Issue (8): 1087-1095.DOI: 10.19894/j.issn.1000-0518.250113

• 研究论文 • 上一篇    下一篇

多臂星形链拓扑结构对嵌段共聚物非平衡态自组装行为的影响

杨晓1,2, 孙德文1,2()   

  1. 1.中国科学院长春应用化学研究所,高分子科学与技术全国重点实验室,长春 130022
    2.中国科学技术大学应用化学与工程学院,合肥 230026
  • 收稿日期:2025-03-17 接受日期:2025-06-04 出版日期:2025-08-01 发布日期:2025-08-11
  • 通讯作者: 孙德文
  • 基金资助:
    吉林省自然科学基金(20240101173JC);国家自然科学基金(21973090);国家自然科学基金(22373029)

Effect from Miktoarm Star-Like Chain Architectures on Nonequilibrium Self-Assembly of Block Copolymers

Xiao YANG1,2, De-Wen SUN1,2()   

  1. 1.State Key Laboratory of Polymer Science and Technology,Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Changchun 130022,China
    2.School of Applied Chemistry and Engineering,University of Science and Technology of China,Hefei 230026,China
  • Received:2025-03-17 Accepted:2025-06-04 Published:2025-08-01 Online:2025-08-11
  • Contact: De-Wen SUN
  • About author:dwsun@ciac.ac.cn
  • Supported by:
    the Science and Technology Development Program of Jilin Province(20240101173JC);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(21973090)

摘要:

嵌段共聚物通过自发的自组装行为能够在纳米尺度上形成多种多样的有序结构,并且由于这些纳米有序结构在电池电极材料、先进半导体器件和三维光子晶体等多个领域具有重要的应用前景,因此其成为高性能材料科学领域的研究人员重点关注的研究对象。 随着高分子合成技术的不断发展,越来越多其他类型的链拓扑结构被合成出来,例如,多臂星形链拓扑结构。 虽然链拓扑结构对嵌段共聚物平衡态自组装行为的影响已经为研究人员所熟知,并且被广泛应用于所需要的嵌段共聚物有序结构的稳定化,但是对于嵌段共聚物非平衡态自组装行为,目前还很少考虑链拓扑结构的影响。 在本研究中,通过设计多臂星形A(CB) m 快速组分变化嵌段共聚物体系,基于多臂星形AB m 嵌段共聚物体系中热力学稳定的六角堆积柱状有序结构,利用C嵌段组分的快速组分变化构建不稳定状态,研究了C嵌段的数目(m的数值)和长度对以这些不稳定状态为起点的非平衡态自组装行为的影响。 通过研究发现,m的数值越大,以构建的不稳定状态为起点,相应的非平衡态自组装行为最终能够到达有序结构的A组分体积分数范围越小,当2≤m≤4时,以构建的不稳定状态为起点,相应的非平衡态自组装行为最终除了能够到达六角堆积柱状有序结构,还能够到达堆积形式类似于石墨烯的柱状有序结构,而当m=5时,以构建的不稳定状态为起点,相应的非平衡态自组装行为最终能够到达的有序结构只有六角堆积柱状有序结构。

关键词: 嵌段共聚物, 链拓扑结构, 非平衡态自组装行为, 快速组分变化, 柱状有序结构

Abstract:

Block copolymers have the ability to form a variety of ordered mesostructures at the length scale of nanometers via spontaneous self-assembly. These ordered nanostructures have significant potential applications in many fields, e.g., battery electrode materials, advanced semiconductor devices, three-dimensional (3D) photonic crystals, etc., and therefore, they have attracted great attention in the field of high-performance material science. With the development of polymer synthesis technology, more and more chain architectures have been synthesized, such as miktoarm star-like chain architectures. Whereas the effect from the chain architectures on the equilibrium self-assembly of block copolymers is well known to researchers and has been widely employed to stabilize the desired ordered mesostructures of block copolymers, the influence of the chain architectures on the nonequilibrium self-assembly of block copolymers is currently rarely considered. In this work, based on the thermodynamically stable hex mesophase in miktoarm star-like AB m block copolymers, by designing miktoarm star-like A(CB) m block copolymers, where the chemophysical properties of C-blocks can be rapidly altered from B to A, to generate unstable states, we explore the nonequilibrium self-assembly ensuing from these unstable states as well as the effect from the number of C-blocks, i.e., the value of m, and the chain length of each C-block. Our obtained results show that the more the value of m, the smaller the volume-fraction interval that is available for the nonequilibrium self-assembly ensuing from the generated unstable states to reach ordered mesostructures. For 2≤m≤4, in addition to hex, the ordered cylindrical mesostructure with graphene-like arrangement of cylinders also can be reached by the nonequilibrium self-assembly ensuing from the generated unstable states, however, when m=5, the ordered mesostructure that can be reached by the nonequilibrium self-assembly ensuing from the generated unstable states is only hex.

Key words: Block copolymer, Chain architecture, Nonequilibrium self-assembly, Rapid-component change, Cylindrical mesostructure

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