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Microphase Segregation in Polyelectrolyte Brushes
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DOI：10.1021/acs.macromol.4c01820.png)
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Polyelectrolyte (PE) brushes have ubiquitous applications as surface modifiers which regulate various structural and dynamic properties. Here, we apply a continuous-space self-consistent field theory to study the structural heterogeneity in PE brushes induced by competing electrostatic and hydrophobic interactions. For brushes with high grafting densities, we find a series of microphase-segregated morphologies with alternating polymer-rich and polymer-poor layers in the direction normal to the substrate. The transitions between multilayer morphologies with consecutive numbers of condensed layers as well as the melting transition to the fully swollen brush are all discontinuous. We also elucidate that the segregated layers are formed by different subpopulations of all chains, significantly different from the scenario of the pearl-necklace structure formed by a single PE in poor solvents. Furthermore, we bridge the microstructure of multilayer brushes to experimentally measurable reflectivity spectra, where the oscillation period and amplitude in the spectra are shown to be very sensitive to the number of layers and the sharpness of the polymer-solvent interface. The multilayer morphology predicted by our theory is in good agreement with the lamellae structure experimentally observed at hydrated Nafion film interfaces.
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WEAKLY CHARGED POLYELECTROLYTES
INTERACTING CHAIN MOLECULES
STATISTICAL-THEORY
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