Hydrophobic Association of Random Copolymers of Sodium 2-(Acrylamido)-2-methylpropanesulfonate and Dodecyl Methacrylate in Water As Studied by Fluorescence and Dynamic Light Scattering
The association behavior of random copolymers of sodium 2-(acrylamido)-2-methylpropanesulfonate (AMPS) and dodecyl methacrylate (DMA) with its content (f DMA) varying from 1 to 15 mol % was investigated by fluorescence and quasielastic light scattering (QELS) techniques in 0.1 M NaCl aqueous solutio...
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Published in | Macromolecules Vol. 32; no. 14; pp. 4631 - 4640 |
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Main Authors | , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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Washington, DC
American Chemical Society
13.07.1999
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Summary: | The association behavior of random copolymers of sodium 2-(acrylamido)-2-methylpropanesulfonate (AMPS) and dodecyl methacrylate (DMA) with its content (f DMA) varying from 1 to 15 mol % was investigated by fluorescence and quasielastic light scattering (QELS) techniques in 0.1 M NaCl aqueous solutions. The association behavior of the copolymers was found to depend strongly on f DMA. When f DMA < 3 mol %, some polymer chains exist as unimers with a hydrodynamic radius (R h) of about 5 nm while some polymers form multipolymer aggregates with R h ≈ 100 nm, arising from “hydrophobic cross-linking” by the interpolymer association of dodecyl groups. When f DMA is increased to 9 mol %, interpolymer hydrophobe associations lead to the formation of a multipolymer micelle with R h ≈ 10−13 nm. The aggregation number (N agg) of dodecyl groups in a micelle core was estimated to be about 195. When f DMA is further increased to 15 mol %, R h for the multipolymer micelle markedly increases to 70−180 nm, the size increasing with increasing polymer concentration, whereas N agg remains constant at about 158 independent of the polymer concentration. On the basis of the results from the fluorescence and QELS measurements, a unicore micelle model was proposed for the copolymer with f DMA = 9 mol %, and a bridged micelle model was proposed for the copolymer with f DMA = 15 mol %. |
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Bibliography: | ark:/67375/TPS-WF7KQ9VZ-1 istex:DFB5B37776C63CE8E654D5D5F98073863016A240 |
ISSN: | 0024-9297 1520-5835 |
DOI: | 10.1021/ma990202j |