Characteristics of monolayer behavior and multilayer film structures of comb polymers having different kinds of fluorocarbon side-chains
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Self-assembling Morphologies Obtained from Helical Polycarbodiimide Copolymers and Their Triazole Derivatives
Published on: February 7, 2017
Atsuhiro Fujimori1, Hiroo Nakahara, Eisuke Ito
1Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Saitama University, Shimo-okubo 255, Sakura-ku, Saitama 338-8570, Japan.
Abstract:
With comb polymers with different kinds of fluorocarbon side-chains, significant effects of spreading solvents on the monolayers at the air/water interface and the molecular arrangement in the deposited films could be found by the use of trifluoroacetic acid and its mixed solvents with n-hexane, depending on the atoms, fluorine or hydrogen, substituted at the end of the fluorocarbon side-chains. These facts are probably due to intralayer hydrogen bonding cooperating with the carbonyl groups of the long-chain esters. The deposited films of solid substrates were characterized by polarized near-edge X-ray absorption fine structure (NEXAFS) spectroscopy as well as in-plane X-ray diffraction and scanning electron and atomic force microscopy.
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