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Frédéric Renou1, Taco Nicolai, Erwan Nicol
1Polymeres, Colloides, Interfaces, UMR CNRS 6120, Universite du Maine, 72085 Le Mans Cedex 9, France.
Abstract:
Poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) end capped with an alkyl group is a highly asymmetric diblock copolymer that forms spherical micelles in aqueous solution resembling multiarm star polymers. The effect of varying the length of the alkyl end group on the structure and viscoelasticity was investigated for pure and mixed micelle suspensions. The aggregation number (p) of the micelles increased and the critical association concentration (CAC) decreased with increasing the length of the end group. At high concentrations a discontinuous reversible liquid-solid transition was observed below a critical temperature (Tc) that increased with increasing length of the end group. Mixing end-capped PEO with different alkyl lengths led first to formation of the micelles by polymers with the lowest CAC into which the other polymers were incorporated when the concentration was increased. The viscoelastic properties at high concentrations are the same for pure systems and mixtures with the same average length of the alkyl end group.
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