Controlling Anti-Penetration Performance by Post-Grafting of Fluorinated Alkyl Chains onto Polystyrene-block-poly(vinyl methyl siloxane). 2024

Zhenglin Zhang, and Krishnaroop Chaudhuri, and Florian Kaefer, and Anthony P Malanoski, and Kirt A Page, and Louisa M Smieska, and Jonathan T Pham, and Christopher K Ober
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States.

Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) has been widely used as a surface coating material, which has been reported to possess dynamic omniphobicity to a wide range of both polar and nonpolar solvents due to its high segmental flexibility and mobility. However, such high flexibility and mobility also enable penetration of small molecules into PDMS coatings, which alter the chemical and physical properties of the coating layers. To improve the anti-penetration properties of PDMS, a series of fluorinated alkyl segments are grafted to a diblock copolymer of polystyrene-block-poly(vinyl methyl siloxane) (PS-b-PVMS) using thiol-ene click reactions. This article reports the chemical characterization of these model fluorosilicone block copolymers and uses fluorescence measurements to investigate the dye penetration characteristics of polymer thin films. The introduction of longer fluorinated alkyl chains can gradually increase the anti-penetration properties as the time to reach the maximum fluorescence intensity (tpeak) gradually increases from 11 s of PS-b-PVMS to more than 1000 s of PS-b-P(n-C6F13-VMS). The improvement of anti-penetration properties is attributed to stronger inter-/intrachain interactions, phase segregation of ordered fluorinated side chains, and enhanced hydrophobicity caused by the grafting of fluorinated alkyl chains.

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