Macromolecular dynamics of sulfonated poly(styrene-b-ethylene-ran-butylene-b-styrene) block copolymers by broadband dielectric spectroscopy

作者：Chen Hongying; Hassan Mohammad K; Peddini Sateesh K; Mauritz Kenneth A^*

来源：European Polymer Journal, 2011, 47(10): 1936-1948.

DOI：10.1016/j.eurpolymj.2011.07.005

• SEBS block copolymers
• Sulfonation
• Dielectric spectroscopy
• Relaxations
• Conductivity

Macromolecular dynamics of sulfonated poly(styrene-b-ethylene-ran-butylene-b-styrene) (sSEBS) triblock copolymers were investigated using broadband dielectric spectroscopy (BDS). Two main relaxations corresponding to the glass transitions in the EB and S block phases were identified and their temperature dependences were VFT-like. T-g for the S block phase shifted to higher temperature due to restrictions on chain mobility caused by hydrogen bonded SO3H groups. While the EB block phase T-g appeared to remain constant with degree of sulfonation in DMA experiments, it shifted somewhat upward in BDS spectra. A low temperature relaxation beneath the glass transition of the EB block phase was attributed to short range chain motions. The Kramers-Kronig integral transformation was used to calculate conductivity-free loss permittivity spectra from real permittivity spectra to enhance true relaxation peaks. A loss permittivity peak tentatively assigned to relaxation of internal S-EB interfacial polarization was seen at temperatures above the S block phase glass transition, and the temperature dependence of this relaxation was VFT-like. The fragilities of the EB and S block domains in sulfonated SEBS decreased after sulfonation. The temperature dependence of the dc conduction contribution to sSEBS loss spectra also followed VFT-like behavior and S block segmental relaxation time correlated well with conductivity according to the fractional Debye-Stokes-Einstein equation.

• 出版日期2011-10