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Dec 8 – 9, 2022
Marriott
Europe/Berlin timezone

Molecular Understanding of the Dynamics of Supramolecular Polymers across different Length Scales

Dec 8, 2022, 2:05 PM
25m
Marriott

Marriott

Talk (20 min + 5 min discussion) Soft Matter Soft Matter

Speaker

Ana Brás Würschig (University of Cologne (UzK))

Description

Supramolecular polymers offer exciting prospects for materials with novel properties because of the reversibility of the non-covalent interactions, like H-bonding.[1,2] This work aims to unravel the correlation between H-bonding association and main chain polarity in supramolecular polymer melts. These are based on poly(ethylene)oxide (PEO) and poly(propylene)oxide (PPO) (in order of decreasing polarity) polymers possessing at the ends either the pair diaminotriazine (DAT) and thymine-1-acetic acid (THY) or 2-ureido-4[1H]-pyrimidinone (UPY) as H-bonding functional groups. A combination of rheology, DRS and NSE provided the association lifetimes for the supramolecular PEO and PPO functionalized with the pair THY/DAT.[2] The lifetimes for THY/DAT are the same for supramolecular PEO and PPO and independent of the chain polarity. SANS results reveal that while PEO and PPO functionalized with THY/DAT self-assemble as linear chains, PEO and PPO functionalized with UPY show phase separation with a cluster size of ∼3 nm responsible for the physical crosslinks of the formed transient network.[2,3]

A.B. acknowledges DFG for a research grant (BR5303) and “Quantum Matter and Materials” (QM2) of the UzK.

[1] A.Brás, A.Arizaga, D.Sokolova, U.Agirre, S.Prévost, A.Radulescu, M.T.Viciosa, M.Kruteva, W.Pyckhout-Hintzen, A.M.Schmidt, Macromolecules, submitted.
[2] A.Brás, A.Arizaga, U.Agirre, M.Dorau, J.Houston, A.Radulescu, M.Kruteva, W.Pyckhout-Hintzen, A.M.Schmidt, Polymers, 2021,13, 2235.

Primary author

Ana Brás Würschig (University of Cologne (UzK))

Co-authors

Dr Ana Arizaga (University of Cologne (UzK)) Ms Marie Dorau (University of Cologne (UzK)) Dr Daria Sokolova (University of Basel) Ms Uxue Agirre (University of Cologne (UzK)) Dr Sylvain Prévost (Institut Laue-Langevin) Dr Aurel Radulescu (Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich Centre for Neutron Science at MLZ) Dr Maria T. Viciosa (Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon) Dr Margarita Kruteva Dr Wim Pyckhout-Hintzen (Forschungszentrum Juelich) Prof. Annette M. Schmidt (University of Cologne (UzK))

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