Affiliation:
1. Department of Materials and Optoelectronic Science Center for Functional Polymers and Supramolecular Materials National Sun Yat-Sen University Kaohsiung 804 Taiwan
2. Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science Assiut University Assiut 71515 Egypt
3. Department of Medicinal and Applied Chemistry Kaohsiung Medical University Kaohsiung 807 Taiwan
Abstract
AbstractAnionic living polymerization was used to prepare a diblock copolymer of poly(styrene‐b‐4‐vinyl pyridine) (PS‐b‐P4VP), and a phenolic resin with a double‐decker silsesquioxane (DDSQ) cage structure was used to form a phenolic/DDSQ hybrid (PDDSQ‐30 with 30 wt.% DDSQ). Strong intermolecular hydrogen bonding could be confirmed through the hydroxyl (OH) groups of PDDSQ hybrid with the pyridine group of the P4VP block in PDDSQ‐30/PS‐b‐P4VP blends based on Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy analyses, where increasing PDDSQ concentrations resulted in a higher proportion of hydrogen‐bonded pyridine groups. After thermal polymerization at 180 °C, the self‐assembled structures of these PDDSQ/PS‐b‐P4VP blends were revealed by data from small‐angle X‐ray scattering (SAXS) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM), where the d‐spacing increased with raising PDDSQ concentration. Because relatively higher thermal stability of the PDDSQ hybrid than pure phenolic resin and PS‐b‐P4VP template, we can obtain the long ranger order of mesoporous PDDSQ hybrids after removing the PS‐b‐P4VP template, which reveals the high surface area and high pore volume with cylindrical and spherical structures corresponding to the PDDSQ compositions that are rarely observed by using pure phenolic resin as the matrix and could be used in supercapacitor application.
Subject
General Chemistry,Catalysis,Organic Chemistry