In-Depth Analysis of the Nonuniform Chain Microstructure of Multiblock Copolymers from Chain-Shuttling Polymerization

共单体 共聚物 小角X射线散射 环己烷 结晶度 高分子化学 材料科学 乙醚 己烷 乙醚 化学 结晶学 聚合物 色谱法 有机化学 散射 光学 物理
作者
Gaia Urciuoli,Antonio Vittoria,Giovanni Talarico,Davide Luise,Claudio De Rosa,Vincenzo Busico,Roberta Cipullo,Odda Ruiz de Ballesteros,Finizia Auriemma
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期刊:Macromolecules [American Chemical Society]
卷期号:54 (23): 10891-10902 被引量:18
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DOI:10.1021/acs.macromol.1c01824
摘要

The nonuniform molecular architecture of ethylene/1-octene multiblock copolymers (O-MBCs) synthesized by the chain shuttling technology is investigated. The samples consist of chains characterized by alternating hard (crystalline) and soft (amorphous) blocks, corresponding to random ethylene/1-alkene copolymers with a low and high comonomer content, respectively. The chains are nonuniform as the distribution in the length and number of blocks per chain are statistical and vary from chain to chain. A clear-cut investigation of the inter- and intrachain constitutional heterogeneity of O-MBCs is performed by carrying out, at first, a sequential and exhaustive solvent fractionation procedure in boiling solvents, that is, diethyl ether, n-hexane, and cyclohexane. Successively, the unfractionated samples and the corresponding fractions are subjected to analytical crystallization elution fractionation (aCEF), solution 13C NMR, differential scanning calorimetry, and wide- and small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) analyses. Four fractions of increasing average ethylene content, hard block content, and degree of crystallinity are obtained, that is, a fraction soluble in diethyl ether (sEE), a fraction insoluble in diethyl ether/soluble in n-hexane (iEE-sC6), a fraction insoluble in n-hexane/soluble in cyclohexane (iC6-sCC6), and a fraction insoluble in cyclohexane (iCC6). The results of aCEF and 13C NMR analysis highlight that the multiblock chain microstructure of the O-MBCs corresponds to a statistical distribution of the length of hard and soft blocks that occurs not only at an interchain level but also at an intrachain level. SAXS measurements essentially confirm the results of the microstructural analysis and allow achieving a quantitative description of the constitutional heterogeneity affecting O-MBCs at the intramolecular level. In particular, it is shown that for the inferior fractions (sEE and iEE-sC6), the chains include hard blocks of low molecular mass (<1 kDa) covalently linked to short and long soft blocks in the iEE-sC6 and sEE fractions, respectively. For the superior fractions (iC6-sCC6 and iCC6), instead, it is shown that the chains include hard blocks of significantly different molecular masses that experience molecular fractionation by the effect of crystallization, the molecular mass of the hard MH and soft MS blocks in the HS units being comprised in between 2 and 16 and 6 and 44 kDa, respectively. These characteristics explain quite well the fractionation behavior of the O-MBCs, highlighting that the solubility in a given solvent does not depend exclusively on the length and the content of hard blocks but is critically dependent also on the length and content of soft blocks.

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