TY  - JOUR
A1  - Adelsberger, Joseph
A1  - Meier-Koll, Andreas
A1  - Bivigou Koumba, Achille Mayelle
A1  - Busch, Peter
A1  - Holderer, Olaf
A1  - Hellweg, Thomas
A1  - Laschewsky, André
A1  - Müller-Buschbaum, Peter
A1  - Papadakis, Christine M.
T1  - The collapse transition and the segmental dynamics in concentrated micellar solutions of P(S-b-NIPAM) diblock copolymers
JF  - Colloid and polymer science : official journal of the Kolloid-Gesellschaft
N2  - We investigate concentrated solutions of poly(styrene-b-N-isopropyl acrylamide) (P(S-b-NIPAM)) diblock copolymers in deuterated water (D2O). Both structural changes and the changes of the segmental dynamics occurring upon heating through the lower critical solution temperature (LCST) of PNIPAM are studied using small-angle neutron scattering and neutron spin-echo spectroscopy. The collapse of the micellar shell and the cluster formation of collapsed micelles at the LCST as well as an increase of the segmental diffusion coefficient after crossing the LCST are detected. Comparing to our recent results on a triblock copolymer P(S-b-NIPAM-b-S) [25], we observe that the collapse transition of P(S-b-NIPAM) is more complex and that the PNIPAM segmental dynamics are faster than in P(S-b-NIPAM-b-S).
KW  - Block copolymers
KW  - Responsive polymers
KW  - Small-angle neutron scattering
KW  - Neutron spin-echo spectroscopy
Y1  - 2011
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00396-011-2382-3
SN  - 0303-402X
VL  - 289
IS  - 5-6
SP  - 711
EP  - 720
PB  - Springer
CY  - New York
ER  -