Stretching Elasticity and Flexibility of Single Polyformaldehyde Chain

Jin-Xia Yang; Hu-Jun Qian; Zheng Gong; Zhong-Yuan Lu; Shu-Xun Cui

doi:10.1007/s10118-022-2679-3

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Stretching Elasticity and Flexibility of Single Polyformaldehyde Chain

RAPID COMMUNICATION | Updated：2022-03-28

- Stretching Elasticity and Flexibility of Single Polyformaldehyde Chain
- Chinese Journal of Polymer Science Vol. 40, Issue 4, Pages: 333-337(2022)
- Affiliations：
  
  a.Key Laboratory of Advanced Technologies of Materials (Ministry of Education), Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 610031, China
  b.State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, Institute of Theoretical Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun 130023, China
  c.School of Life Science and Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 610031, China
- Author bio：
  
  cuishuxun@swjtu.edu.cn
- Funds：
- DOI：10.1007/s10118-022-2679-3
  CLC：
- Received：17 October 2021，
  
  Revised：2021-11-20，
  
  Accepted：09 December 2021，
  
  Online First：10 February 2022，
  
  Published：01 April 2022
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Yang, J. X.; Qian, H. J.; Gong, Z.; Lu, Z. Y.; Cui, S. X. Stretching elasticity and flexibility of single polyformaldehyde chain. Chinese J. Polym. Sci. 2022, 40, 333–337

Jin-Xia Yang, Hu-Jun Qian, Zheng Gong, et al. Stretching Elasticity and Flexibility of Single Polyformaldehyde Chain[J]. Chinese Journal of Polymer Science, 2022, 40(4): 333-337.
Yang, J. X.; Qian, H. J.; Gong, Z.; Lu, Z. Y.; Cui, S. X. Stretching elasticity and flexibility of single polyformaldehyde chain. Chinese J. Polym. Sci. 2022, 40, 333–337 DOI： 10.1007/s10118-022-2679-3.

Jin-Xia Yang, Hu-Jun Qian, Zheng Gong, et al. Stretching Elasticity and Flexibility of Single Polyformaldehyde Chain[J]. Chinese Journal of Polymer Science, 2022, 40(4): 333-337. DOI： 10.1007/s10118-022-2679-3.

摘要

Abstract

In this work

the single-chain elasticity of polyformaldehyde (POM) is studied

for the first time

by employing atomic force microscopy (AFM)-based single molecule force spectroscopy (SMFS). We find that the single-chain elasticity of POM in a nonpolar organic solvent (nonane) can be described well by a theoretical model (QM-FRC model)

when the rotating unit length is 0.144 nm (C―O bond length). After comparison

POM is more flexible than polystyrene (a typical polymer with C―C backbone) at the single-chain level

which is reasonable since the C―O bond has a lower rotation barrier than C―C bond. This result indicates that the flexibility of a polymer chain can be tuned by the C―O bond proportion in backbone

which casts new light on the rational design of new synthetic polymers in the future.

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