Supersoft Polymer Melts in Binary Blends of Bottlebrush <i>cis</i>‐1,4‐Polyfarnesene and <i>cis</i>‐1,4‐Polyisoprene-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Supersoft Polymer Melts in Binary Blends of Bottlebrush cis‐1,4‐Polyfarnesene and cis‐1,4‐Polyisoprene

Published:2024-08-26 Issue: Volume: Page:
ISSN:1022-1336
Container-title:Macromolecular Rapid Communications
language:en
Short-container-title:Macromol. Rapid Commun.

Author:

Tzourtzouklis Ioannis¹,Meier‐Merziger Moritz²,Frey Holger²^ORCID,Floudas George¹³⁴^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Physics University of Ioannina P.O. Box 1186 Ioannina 45110 Greece

2. Department of Chemistry Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz Duesbergweg 10–14 55128 Mainz Germany

3. Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research Ackermannweg 10 55128 Mainz Germany

4. University Research Center of Ioannina (URCI)‐Institute of Materials Science and Computing Ioannina 45110 Greece

Abstract

AbstractBinary blends of polyterpenes are employed comprising cis‐1,4‐polyfarnesene (PF) with a bottlebrush architecture, and linear cis‐1,4‐polyisoprene (PI) as model systems toward supersoft polymer melts. The bottlebrush PF results in a low plateau modulus ( Pa) that can further be reduced with the addition of PI. Depending on the fraction of short PI chains in the athermal and nearly isofrictional blends, plateau moduli in the range from 1 to 10 kPa can be achieved. Tube dilation is very efficient in the present binary blends as compared to more common blends comprising long/short or linear/star chains of identical polymer structure.

Funder

European Commission

Publisher

Wiley

Link

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/marc.202400551

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