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常规的系综研究方法显示在动力学不对称的易混聚合物中存在着受限区域, 但是不能给出受限区域的分布、尺度及受限区域内的动力学分布特征等. 单分子光学探针被用来探测苯乙烯高聚物与苯乙烯寡聚物形成的易混聚合物薄膜中的受限纳米区域的动力学. 实验发现易混聚合物中存在转动和固定不动的两种动力学形式的单分子, 指示着单分子分别耦合到苯乙烯高聚物和苯乙烯寡聚物的聚合物链片段上. 转动单分子的分布揭示了易混聚合物薄膜受限区域的分布特征. 受限区域的尺度被估计为其可能接近于单分子探针的尺度(约2 nm). 受限纳米区域中单分子的转动关联时间的分布揭示了受限纳米区域中聚合物动力学的分布特征. 实验发现在含有更高浓度的苯乙烯高聚物的混聚物薄膜中具有更快的动力学行为, 从而在单分子水平上揭示了易混聚合物中的受限纳米区域的动力学.Miscible mixtures of polymer blends have physical properties that are often linked simply to the blend composition, thus offering an inexpensive and convenient method to achieve new high performance polymers. Confinement effect has been found in various polymer blend systems by the ensemble methods, but further understanding the confinement effect still requires large efforts both in experiment and in theory. Single molecule spectroscopy has the potential to provide an in-depth insight to the dynamic information by directly coupling their reorientation to the segmental relaxation of the surrounding polymer matrix. We investigate the confinement effects in polystyrene and oligostyrene blend films by using single-molecule defocused wide-field fluorescence microscopy. According to the observation for dynamic behaviors of probe molecules in the blend films of 75 wt.% and 25 wt.% polystyrene, we find that there are two types of single molecules in the blend films: rotational molecules and immobile molecules. The experimental temperature of 296 K is between the glass transition temperature (Tg) values of two pure components and also is far from the two Tg values. At the temperature, oligostyrene component is trapped by the frozen polystyrene component, but they still move locally. Therefore, the rotational and immobile molecules should couple to the oligostyrene component and polystyrene component, respectively. The distribution of rotational single molecules reveals that the confined regions randomly distribute across miscible polymer blends. The length scale of confined region is estimated to be close to that of the probe molecule by taking into account the rotational dynamics of single molecules. The local relaxation of blend film is also investigated by the rotational correlation time which can be estimated by fitting the autocorrelation curve of 〈cos(Φ)〉 with a Kohlrausch-Williams-Watts stretched exponential function. The histograms of the rotational correlation times in the blend films of 75 wt.% and 25 wt.% polystyrene are obtained respectively, which reveal the characteristic of local dynamic distribution in the confined nano-regions. We find that the dynamic behavior in the blend film of 75 wt.% polystyrene is faster than that of 25 wt.% polystyrene, indicating there is a confinement effect in the blend due to the increased constraints imposed by the polystyrene component at a higher concentration of polystyrene. All results observed in the experiment can be explained qualitatively by the self-concentration model. Our work indicates that the single molecule defocused wide-field fluorescence microscopy is a powerful tool to study the complex dynamic features in the polymer blends.
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Keywords:
- miscible polymer blends /
- confined nano-regions /
- single molecule spectroscopy /
- defocused imaging
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图 1 含有PDI单分子光学探针的苯乙烯高聚物与苯乙烯寡聚物形成的易混聚合物薄膜样品示意图, 上方插图为苯乙烯高聚物(PS, n ≈ 65)、苯乙烯寡聚物(OS, n ≈ 3)和PDI单分子的分子结构
Fig. 1. Schematic view of experimental samples of polystyrene/oligostyrene blend films with PDI single molecules. The above inserts are the chemical structures of polystyrene, oligostyrene and PDI dye molecule, respectively
图 2 (a)单分子散焦宽场荧光成像显微镜实验装置示意图; (b)单分子的跃迁偶极矩可以由面内角(ϕ)和面外角(θ)来表示; (c)单分子的跃迁偶极矩的三维角位移(Φ); (d)不同ϕ和θ所对应的单分子散焦成像和每一行内的平均散焦成像
Fig. 2. (a) Schematic of single-molecule defocused wide-field fluorescence microscopy; (b) transition dipole moment of single PDI molecule presented by using in-plane (ϕ) and out-of-plane (θ) angles; (c) 3D angular displacement (Φ); (d) defocused patterns of single molecules for different ϕ and θ angles as well as an averaged image for each row.
图 3 (a) 苯乙烯高聚物薄膜中的单分子散焦宽场荧光成像; (b)苯乙烯寡聚物薄膜中的单分子散焦宽场荧光成像; 以上的两个散焦成像都由100个单帧的成像叠加形成的, 可以直观地显示单分子在苯乙烯高聚物和苯乙烯寡聚物薄膜中的不同的动力学行为(图中标尺为4 μm)
Fig. 3. Defocused images of single molecules in a pure polystyrene film (a) and a pure oligostyrene film (b). Each image is formed by accumulating 100 frames of a defocused imaging sequences (scale bar is 4 μm)
图 4 (a)苯乙烯高聚物与苯乙烯寡聚物的易混聚合物薄膜中的单分子散焦宽场荧光成像, 该散焦成像都由100个单帧的成像叠加而成, 成像图中存在两类动力学形式的单分子, 分别用方框和圆圈所标记(图中标尺为6 μm); (b) 方框所标记的单分子ϕ, θ和Φ角的时间轨迹曲线, 表示为固定不动的单分子; (c) 圆圈所标记的单分子的ϕ, θ和Φ角的时间轨迹曲线, 表示为连续转动的单分子
Fig. 4. (a) Defocused images of single molecules in a polystyrene/oligostyrene blend film, and the image was formed by accumulating 100 frames of a defocused imaging sequences, two typical rotational diffusion behaviors of single molecules in the polystyrene/oligostyrene blend films were marked with square and circle, respectively (scale bar is 6 μm); (b) ϕ, θ, and Φ as a function of time indicating the behavior of an immobile molecule; (c) ϕ, θ, and Φ as a function of time indicating the behavior of a rotational molecule
图 5 (a)在混聚物薄膜中的转动单分子的转动自关联函数及其拟合曲线; (b) 在苯乙烯高聚物占比为75 wt.%的易混聚合物薄膜中的单分子的转动关联时间(τc)的统计柱状图; (c) 在苯乙烯高聚物占比为25 wt%的易混聚合物薄膜中的单分子的τc的统计柱状图
Fig. 5. (a) Rotational autocorrelation function of a single molecule in the polystyrene/ oligostyrene blend films, and a fitting with KWW stretched exponential function; (b) histogram of correlation times (τc) of single molecules in blend film with 75 wt.%; (c) histogram of τc of single molecules in blend film with 25 wt.%
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