Supramolecular Self-assembly Behaviors of Asymmetric Diblock Copolymer Blends with Hydrogen Bonding Interactions between Shorter Blocks Modelled by Yukawa Potentials

Xu Zhang; Jialiang Chen; Lin Xu; Tianxi Liu

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Supramolecular Self-assembly Behaviors of Asymmetric Diblock Copolymer Blends with Hydrogen Bonding Interactions between Shorter Blocks Modelled by Yukawa Potentials

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- Supramolecular Self-assembly Behaviors of Asymmetric Diblock Copolymer Blends with Hydrogen Bonding Interactions between Shorter Blocks Modelled by Yukawa Potentials
- Chinese Journal of Polymer Science Vol. 39, Issue 11, Pages: 1502-1509(2021)
- Affiliations：
  
  a.Innovation Center for Textile Science and Technology, State Key Laboratory for Modification of Chemical Fibers and Polymer Materials, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Donghua University, Shanghai 201620, China
  b.National Garment and Accessories Quality Supervision Testing Center (Fujian), Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Textiles Inspection Technology, Fujian Fiber Inspection Center, Fuzhou 350026, China
  c.Key Laboratory of Synthetic and Biological Colloids, Ministry of Education, School of Chemical and Material Engineering, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, China
- Author bio：
  
  lxu@dhu.edu.cn (L.X.)
  txliu@dhu.edu.cn, txliu@jiangnan.edu.cn (T.L.)
- Funds：
- DOI：10.1007/s10118-021-2591-2
  CLC：
- Received：22 March 2021，
  
  Revised：2021-4-7，
  
  Accepted：14 April 2021，
  
  Online First：18 June 2021，
  
  Published：18 September 2021
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Zhang, X.; Chen. J.; Xu, L.; Liu, T. Supramolecular self-assembly behaviors of asymmetric diblock copolymer blends with hydrogen bonding interactions between shorter blocks modelled by Yukawa potentials. Chinese J. Polym. Sci. 2021, 39, 1502–1509

Xu Zhang, Jialiang Chen, Lin Xu, et al. Supramolecular Self-assembly Behaviors of Asymmetric Diblock Copolymer Blends with Hydrogen Bonding Interactions between Shorter Blocks Modelled by Yukawa Potentials[J]. Chinese Journal of Polymer Science, 2021, 39(11): 1502-1509.
Zhang, X.; Chen. J.; Xu, L.; Liu, T. Supramolecular self-assembly behaviors of asymmetric diblock copolymer blends with hydrogen bonding interactions between shorter blocks modelled by Yukawa potentials. Chinese J. Polym. Sci. 2021, 39, 1502–1509 DOI： 10.1007/s10118-021-2591-2.

Xu Zhang, Jialiang Chen, Lin Xu, et al. Supramolecular Self-assembly Behaviors of Asymmetric Diblock Copolymer Blends with Hydrogen Bonding Interactions between Shorter Blocks Modelled by Yukawa Potentials[J]. Chinese Journal of Polymer Science, 2021, 39(11): 1502-1509. DOI： 10.1007/s10118-021-2591-2.

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Abstract

We employed the extended self-consistent field theory to investigate the supramolecular self-assembly behaviors of asymmetric diblock copolymer blends (AB/B’C) with hydrogen bonding interactions between shorter B and B’ blocks. The hydrogen bonding interactions are described by Yukawa potentials

where the hydrogen bonding donors and acceptors were modelled as two blocks smeared with opposite screened charges. The hierarchical microstructures with parallelly packed lamellae-in-lamellae (

Lam

) and

4.8.8

Archimedean tilting pattern (

4.8.8

) were observed at lower and higher hydrogen bonding density (

)

respectively. The hierarchy of

Lam

and

4.8.8

were demonstrated by the one- and two-dimensional density profiles and the underlying order of the large-length-scale and small-length-scale microstructures were also clarified. It was found that the

4.8.8

is favorable to the stronger hydrogen bonding density or interactions. As

increases

the microphase transition from

Lam

4.8.8

occurs at

=0.34

which is mainly attributed to the optimization of the electrostatic energy and conformational entropy with sacrificing the interfacial energy. This work can provide a new strategy to understand the supramolecular self-assembly as well as the mechanism behind the formation of complex hierarchical microstructures.

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