TY - JOUR
TI - Mechanical Properties and Hysteresis Behaviour of Multigraft Copolymers
AU - U. Staudinger
AU - R. Weidisch
AU - Y. Zhu
AU - S. P. Gido
AU - D. Uhrig
AU - J. W. Mays
AU - H. Iatrou
AU - N. Hadjichristidis
JO - Macromolecular Symposia
PY - 2006
VL - 233
TODO - 1
SP - 42--50
PB - Wiley
SN - 1022-1360, 1521-3900
TODO - 10.1002/masy.200690027
TODO - Elasticity;  Hysteresis;  Mechanical properties;  Morphology;  Phase separation;  Polystyrenes;  Self assembly;  Tensile properties, Linear dependence;  Multigraft copolymers;  Tetra-functional multigraft copolymers, Graft copolymers
TODO - PS-PI multigraft copolymers with tri- tetra- and hexafunctional polystyrene branch points have been studied to investigate the influence of molecular architecture on morphological and tensile properties and to find novel material concepts. It was found that the morphological behaviour of these grafted copolymers can be predicted using theoretical approaches. The number of branch points, however, greatly influences the long-range order of microphase separation. Additionally, two new parameters for adjusting mechanical properties of multigraft copolymers are found in our investigations: i) functionality of the graft copolymer: tri-, tetra- or hexafunctional and 2) number of branch points per molecule. Tetra-functional multigraft copolymers show surprising high strain at break values up to 1550 %. With increasing number of branch points strain at break and tensile strength increase, where a linear dependence of mechanical properties on the number of branch points is obvious. Excellent elasticity of tetra and hexafunctional multigraft copolymers at high deformation was proved in hysteresis experiments. © 2006 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.
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