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Understanding associative polymer self-assembly with shrinking gate fluorescence correlation spectroscopy
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The self-assembly of polymers is integral to their role in liquid formulations. In this study, we combine a dye whose lifetime is sensitive to the nanoviscosity of its local environment with shrinking gate fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (sgFCS) to study the self-assembly of a model telechelic polymer, hydrophobically modified ethoxylated urethane (HEUR). Fluorescence lifetime measurements show a monotonic increase in average lifetime with increasing HEUR concentration driven by a small fraction of dye (<1%) with long lifetimes strongly bound to HEUR. Despite this small fraction, sgFCS isolates the diffusional dynamics of the bound fraction with no a priori assumptions as to the distribution of lifetimes. Sensitivity is greatly enhanced compared to standard FCS, revealing micellar aggregates forming between 0.2 and 1 wt% followed by formation of a percolated network. This sgFCS approach, which we apply for the first time to polymers in this work, is readily extendable to any dye that changes lifetime on binding.
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