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Authors Mahltig, B. ; Müller-Buschbaum, P. ; Wolkenhauer, M. ; Wunnicke, O. ; Wiegand, S. ; Gohy, J.F. ; Jérome, R. ; Stamm, M.
Title Highly Regular Polyampholytic Structures Adsorbed Directly from Solution
Date 22.10.2001
Number 9824
Abstract This article concerns the adsorption of the diblock polyampholyte poly(methacrylic acid)-block-poly((dimethylamino)ethyl metharylate) (PMAA-b-PDMAEMA) from aqueous solution on silicon substrates. The investigated polyampholyte is characterized by a small molecular weight around 15,000 g/mol and a big positively charged PDMAEMA block. The adsorbed amount determined by ellipsometry was strongly influenced by the pH of the adsorption solution. Using dynamic light scattering polyampholytic structures with diameters around 50 nm were found in aqueous solution. The hydrodynamic diameter was hardly affected by changing the pH of the polymer solution. Analogous regular structures were also found by scanning force microscopy (SFM) and grazing incidence, small angle X-ray scattering (GISAXS) at the silicon surface after the adsorption process. While SFM provides a topographical image of a small part of the adsorbed polyampholytic layer, GISAXS was used to get a statistical description of the lateral surface structures. The adsorbed structures were highly regular and their sizes were nearly pH independent over a large pH region. Only directly at the isoelectric point of the polyampholyte larger adsorbed structures were observed. Compared with earlier investigated PMAA-b-PDMAEMA systems we are now able to prepare highly regular polyampholytic structures at silicon surfaces. There are two kinds of interactions for the adsorbed micelles. First, the charged block of the chains is directly attracted to the substrate via electrostatic interactions, while the uncharged part of the chains is only hydrophobically attracted via the hydrophobic core of the adsorbed micelle.
Publisher Journal of Colloid and Interface Science
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Citation Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 242 (2001) 36-43
DOI https://doi.org/10.1006/jcis.2001.7771
Tags polyampholyte adsorption desorption micelles sfm gisaxs ellipsometry ampholytic diblock copolymers dilute aqueous-solution solid/liquid interface polystyrene latex polyelectrolyte adsorption charged surface micelles ph behavior water

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