MOLECULAR BOTTLEBRUSHES

Authors
WINTERMANTEL M GERLE M FISCHER K SCHMIDT M WATAOKA I URAKAWA H KAJIWARA K TSUKAHARA Y
Citation
M. Wintermantel et al., MOLECULAR BOTTLEBRUSHES, Macromolecules, 29(3), 1996, pp. 978-983
Citations number
14
Categorie Soggetti
Polymer Sciences
Journal title
Macromolecules → ACNP
ISSN journal
00249297
Volume
29
Issue
3
Year of publication
1996
Pages
978 - 983
Database
ISI
SICI code
0024-9297(1996)29:3<978:MB>2.0.ZU;2-7
Abstract
Polymacromonomers consisting of oligostyrene side chains (700 less tha n or equal to M(n) less than or equal to 5000 g/mol) and of a high mol ar mass polymethacrylate main chain are shown to exhibit a bottlebrush structure in that the PMA main chain adopts an extremely stiff confor mation (i.e., a Kuhn statistical segment length of up to iota(k) = 200 0 Angstrom) which is surrounded by the expanded but still flexible pol ystyrene side chains.