Measurement of spin-lattice relaxation times in multiphase polymer systems. 2023

Zhiwei Yan, and Rongchun Zhang
South China Advanced Institute for Soft Matter Science and Technology (AISMST), School of Emergent Soft Matter (SESM), South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510640, PR China.

Solid-state Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) has emerged as a pivotal technique for unraveling the microstructure and dynamics of intricate polymer and biological materials. Within this context, site-specific proton spin-lattice relaxation times in the laboratory frame (T1) and rotating frame (T1ρ) have become indispensable tools for investigating phase separation structures and molecular dynamics in multiphase polymer systems. Notably, the site-specific measurement of proton T1 and T1ρ is usually achieved via 13C detection in polymers, where 1H polarization is typically transferred to 13C via cross polarization (CP). Nevertheless, CP relies on the 1H-13C heteronuclear dipolar couplings, and thus it does not work well for the mobile components. In this study, via the integration of CP and RINEPT (refocused insensitive nuclei enhanced by polarization transfer), we propose a robust approach for the measurement of site-specific proton T1 and T1ρ in multiphase polymers. It overcomes the limitation of CP on transferring 1H polarization to 13C in mobile components, and thus enables simultaneous determination of site-specific proton T1 and T1ρ in rigid and mobile components in multiphase polymers in a single experiment. Such experiment can also be used for dynamics-based spectral editing due to the dynamic selectivity of CP- and RINEPT-based polarization transfer process. The proposed experiments are well demonstrated on three typical multiphase polymer systems, poly(methyl methacrylate)/polybutadiene (PMMA/PB) polymer blend, polyurethane (PU) and polystyrene-polybutadiene-polystyrene (SBS) elastomers. We envisage the proposed experiments can be a universal avenue for structural and dynamic elucidation of multiphase polymers containing both rigid and mobile components.

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