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Polymer diffusion in high-M/low-M hard-soft latex blends
Fecha
2009-03Registro en:
Tomba, Juan Pablo; Portinha, Daniel; Schroeder, Walter Fabian; Winnik, Mitchell A.; Lau, Willie ; Polymer diffusion in high-M/low-M hard-soft latex blends; Springer; Colloid and Polymer Science; 287; 3; 3-2009; 367-378
0303-402X
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Autor
Tomba, Juan Pablo
Portinha, Daniel
Schroeder, Walter Fabian
Winnik, Mitchell A.
Lau, Willie
Resumen
This paper describes experiments that investigate the use of low glass transition temperature (T g) latex particles consisting of oligomer to promote polymer diffusion in films formed from high molar mass polymer latex. The chemical composition of both polymers was similar. Fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) was used to follow the rate of polymer diffusion for samples in which the high molar mass polymer was labeled with appropriate donor and acceptor dyes. In these latex blends, the presence of the oligomer (with M n = 24,000 g/mol, M w/M n = 2) was so effective at promoting the interdiffusion of the higher molar mass poly(butyl acrylate-co-methyl methacrylate; PBA/MMA = 1:1 by weight) polymer (with M n = 43,00 g/mol, M w/M n = 3) that a significant amount of interdiffusion occurred during film drying. Additional polymer diffusion occurred during film aging and annealing, and this effect could be described quantitatively in terms of free-volume theory.