Physics – Condensed Matter – Soft Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2007-10-24
Macromolecules, 40, 9482-9490 (2007)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Soft Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
10.1021/ma071192m
We examined the kinetics of the transformation from the lamellar (LAM) to the hexagonally packed cylinder (HEX) phase for the triblock copolymer, polystyrene-b-poly (ethylene-co-butylene)-b-polystyrene (SEBS) in dibutyl phthalate (DBP), a selective solvent for polystyrene (PS), using time-resolved small angle x-ray scattering (SAXS). We observe the HEX phase with the EB block in the cores at a lower temperature than the LAM phase due to the solvent selectivity of DBP for the PS block. Analysis of the SAXS data for a deep temperature quench well below the LAM-HEX transition shows that the transformation occurs in a one-step process. We calculate the scattering using a geometric model of rippled layers with adjacent layers totally out of phase during the transformation. The agreement of the calculations with the data further supports the continuous transformation mechanism from the LAM to HEX for a deep quench. In contrast, for a shallow quench close to the OOT we find agreement with a two-step nucleation and growth mechanism.
Bansil Rama
Li Minghai
Liu Yongsheng
Steinhart Milos
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