POLY(CYCLOHEXYLETHYLENE)-POLYACRYLATE BLOCK COPOLYMERS, METHODS OF MANUFACTURE THEREOF AND ARTICLES COMPRISING THE SAME

• Main Authors: BATES,FRANK STEVEN, HUSTAD,PHILLIP DENE, HILLMYER,MARC ANDREW, KENNEMUR,JUSTIN GLENN
• Format: Patent
• Language: Chinese; English
• Published: 24.12.2014
• Subjects: APPARATUS SPECIALLY ADAPTED THEREFOR; CHEMISTRY; CINEMATOGRAPHY; COMPOSITIONS BASED THEREON; ELECTROGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY; MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS OBTAINED BY REACTIONS ONLY INVOLVINGCARBON-TO-CARBON UNSATURATED BONDS; MATERIALS THEREFOR; METALLURGY; ORGANIC MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS; ORIGINALS THEREFOR; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHOTOMECHANICAL PRODUCTION OF TEXTURED OR PATTERNED SURFACES,e.g. FOR PRINTING, FOR PROCESSING OF SEMICONDUCTORDEVICES; PHYSICS; THEIR PREPARATION OR CHEMICAL WORKING-UP

Disclosed herein is a block copolymer comprising a first block derived from a cyclo-alkyl vinyl monomer, a hydrogenated vinyl aromatic polymer or a hydrogenated vinyl pyridine polymers; and a second block derived from an acrylate monomer. Disclosed herein too is a method comprising reacting a first block derived from a cyclo-alkyl vinyl monomer, a hydrogenated vinyl aromatic polymer or a hydrogenated vinyl pyridine polymers with an initiator to form a macroinitiator; and polymerizing a second block onto the first block to form a block copolymer; where the second block is derived by polymerizing an acrylate monomer; and where the block copolymer has a chi parameter of greater than or equal to about 0.05, when measured at a temperature of 200 DEG C to 210 DEG C; where the chi parameter is a measure of interactions between the first block and the second block of the copolymer.