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Branched Wormlike Micelles Formed by Self-Assembled Comblike Amphiphilic Copolyelectrolytes

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The structure of the self-assemblies formed by amphiphilic comblike copolyelectrolytes dispersed in water has been investigated by scattering techniques (light and neutron) and by transmission electronic microscopy. The comblike polymers consisted of a polystyrene backbone grafted with a fixed amount of pendant N,N-dimethyl quaternary ammonium alkyl groups of various lengths ranging from C12 up to C18. In aqueous solution, the polymers self-assembled into small spherical aggregates at low concentrations and into cylindrical aggregates above a critical concentration with a diameter that increased with the length of the alkyl side chains. The length of the cylindrical aggregates increased with increasing concentration, and branching occurred at higher concentration, which induced gelation above a critical percolation concentration. Growth and branching were favored by increasing the ionic strength of the solution. The dynamics slowed down with decreasing temperature and increasing alkyl length, and the assemblies of polymers with C16 and C18 pendant chains were kinetically frozen at 20 degrees C.

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hal-02470770 , version 1 (07-02-2020)

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Fabien Dutertre, Cédric Gaillard, Christophe Chassenieux, Taco Nicolai. Branched Wormlike Micelles Formed by Self-Assembled Comblike Amphiphilic Copolyelectrolytes. Macromolecules, 2015, 48 (20), pp.7604-7612. ⟨10.1021/acs.macromol.5b01503⟩. ⟨hal-02470770⟩
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