pH-Controlled Rheological Properties of Mixed Amphiphilic
Triblock Copolymers
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Aqueous mixtures of pH-sensitive
block random BAB triblock copolymers
with different hydrophobic B blocks connected to the same hydrophilic
A block were studied in order to investigate comicellization and the
impact on the dynamic mechanical properties. The B blocks were statistical
copolymers of acrylic acid (AA) and n-butyl acrylate
(nBA) with varying AA contents, whereas the A block
was a pure PAA. Neat triblocks self-assembled into transient networks
for which the mechanical relaxation time depended both on the AA content
within the B blocks and on the pH, which affected the ionization of
the AA units. Static and dynamic light scattering measurements were
done on mixtures of equivalent AB diblock copolymers that showed that
comicellization occurred only at conditions at which both copolymers
considered separately self-assemble. When comicellization occurred,
the characteristic escape time of both types of B blocks from the
mixed hydrophobic cores impacted the rheological properties of the
binary triblock mixture. Using binary mixtures of BAB triblock copolymers
exhibiting pH-controlled dynamics thus allows control and fine-tuning
of the viscoelastic properties at constant pH by formulation without
the need to synthesize a large number of different polymers. Moreover,
the more dynamic B blocks were slowed down in the presence of the
less dynamic ones, and vice versa, so that a frozen network could
be transformed into a transient one by coassembly with very dynamic
chains.
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Lauber, Lionel; Colombani, Olivier; Nicolai, Taco; Chassenieux, Christophe (2016). pH-Controlled Rheological Properties of Mixed Amphiphilic
Triblock Copolymers. ACS Publications. Collection. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.6b01600
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Lionel Lauber
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Olivier Colombani
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Taco Nicolai
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Christophe Chassenieux