Improved compositional analysis of block copolymers using diffusion ordered NMR spectroscopy. 2009

Stéphane Viel, and Michaël Mazarin, and Rémi Giordanengo, and Trang N T Phan, and Laurence Charles, and Stefano Caldarelli, and Denis Bertin
Universités Aix-Marseille I, II et III-CNRS, UMR 6263, Institut des Sciences Moléculaires de Marseille, Equipe CES, F-13397 Marseille, France. s.viel@univ-cezanne.fr

Block copolymers constitute a fascinating class of polymeric materials that are used in a broad range of applications. The performance of these materials is highly coupled to the physical and chemical properties of the constituting block copolymers. Traditionally, the composition of block copolymers is obtained by 1H NMR spectroscopy on purified copolymer fractions. Specifically, the integrals of a properly selected set of 1H resonances are compared and used to infer the number average molecular weight (M(n)) of one of the block from the (typically known) M(n) value of the other. As a corollary, compositional determinations achieved on imperfectly purified samples lead to serious errors, especially when isolation of the block copolymer from the initial macro initiator is tedious. This investigation shows that Diffusion Ordered NMR Spectroscopy (DOSY) can be used to provide a way to assess the advancement degree of the copolymerization purification/reaction, in order to optimize it and hence contribute to an improved compositional analysis of the resulting copolymer. To this purpose, a series of amphiphilic polystyrene-b-poly(ethylene oxide) block copolymers, obtained by controlled free-radical nitroxide mediated polymerization, were analyzed and it is shown that, under proper experimental conditions, DOSY allows for an improved compositional analysis of these block copolymers.

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