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Hierarchical Structure‐within‐Structure Morphologies in A‐ block ‐(B‐ graft ‐C) Molecules
Author(s) -
Huang ChingI,
Lin YuChih
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
macromolecular rapid communications
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.348
H-Index - 154
eISSN - 1521-3927
pISSN - 1022-1336
DOI - 10.1002/marc.200700276
Subject(s) - dissipative particle dynamics , lamellar structure , block (permutation group theory) , morphology (biology) , molecule , length scale , crystallography , covalent bond , materials science , chemical physics , chemistry , physics , polymer , combinatorics , mathematics , composite material , organic chemistry , quantum mechanics , biology , genetics
Abstract We have used dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) to simulate the self‐assembling behavior of A‐ block ‐(B‐ graft ‐C) coil‐comb molecules, in which each B segment is covalently bonded with one C segment. In addition to the composition, we found that by varying any of the interaction parameters between each pair of components I and J , where I , J = A, B, C, we can also induce a series of morphology transitions associated with two length scales. Moreover, we observed that if the length of the BC‐comb block is not long enough, the resulting morphology is mainly in the large‐length‐scale, ordering between the A‐rich and C‐rich domains with most of the B in the interfaces. By increasing the length of the BC‐comb block, one may expect that both B and C can pack orderly to form a lamellar structure. As a result, various experimentally observed structure‐within‐structures have been simulated via DPD.