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Cornelia Meissner¹, Alfred J Crosby¹, Todd Emrick¹

¹Polymer Science & Engineering Department, Conte Center for Polymer Research, University of Massachusetts, 120 Governors Drive, Amherst, MA, 01003, USA.

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Area of Science:

Soft matter physics
Polymer science
Materials science

Background:

Understanding soft material properties requires studying mesoscale structures (intermediate between molecular and bulk scales).
Synthetic mesoscale structures offer a platform to investigate these properties.

Purpose of the Study:

To prepare and characterize synthetic mesoscale polymer filaments.
To introduce anionic character to these structures and observe their behavior in aqueous environments.

Main Methods:

Preparation of mesoscale polymer filaments using flow coating and evaporative deposition.
Introduction of anionic character via thiol-ene reactions on olefin-containing polymer ribbons.
Morphological analysis of filaments in aqueous solutions with varying ionic character.

Main Results:

Successfully synthesized charged mesoscale polymer filaments.
Demonstrated that filament morphology changes based on their neutral versus anionic character in aqueous solutions.
Established a link between charge, environment, and structure in these macromolecular materials.

Conclusions:

Mesoscale polymer filaments are viable structures for studying soft matter.
The charge of mesoscale structures significantly influences their morphology in solution.
This work provides insights into the structure-morphology relationships of small, multi-length scale soft materials.