Small Angle X-ray Scattering Investigation of Norbornene-Terminated Syndiotactic Polypropylene and Corresponding Comb-Like Poly(macromonomer)

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• 作者：Finizia Auriemma ; Claudio De Rosa ; Rocco Di Girolamo ; Amelia Silvestre ; Amelia M. Anderson-Wile ; Geoffrey W. Coates
• 刊名：Journal of Physical Chemistry B
• 出版年：2013
• 出版时间：September 5, 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：117
• 期：35
• 页码：10320-10333
• 全文大小：761K
• 年卷期：v.117,no.35(September 5, 2013)
• ISSN：1520-5207

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The structure and crystallization properties of a norbornene end-functionalized syndiotactic polypropylene (sPP) macromonomer (MMsPP) with [rrrr] = 80 mol % and molecular mass M_n = 3600 g/mol and corresponding comb-like poly(macromonomer) (pMMsPP) with M_n = 100000 g/mol have been investigated using wide angle (WAXS) and small angle (SAXS) X-ray scattering, atomic force (AFM), transmission electron (TEM), and optical (OM) microscopy. The analysis reveals the tendency of the macromonomer and poly(macromonomer) to form structures characterized by layers of sPP chains alternated to layers occupied by the cyclic groups (norbornene or polynorbornene), and a small degree of interdigitation of sPP chains belonging to adjacent layers facing each other in an end-to-end arrangement. It is argued that this layering is dictated, upon crystallization, by nanophase separation of the flexible sPP chains in regions apart from those occupied by the cyclic groups coupled to formation of sPP crystals organized in the lamellar morphology. SAXS measurements indicate that in isothermally crystallized samples the layered structures are irregular and include sPP lamellar crystals of uniform thickness separated by amorphous layers whose thickness values have a multimodal distribution. These properties are intrinsic to the chemical structure of our systems and are only minimally influenced by the topological constrains of the covalent bonding of macromonomers in the corresponding comb-polymer.