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PUIG julieta
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Título:
NANOSTRUCTURED POLYMER NETWORKS BASED ON AMPHIPHILIC MONOMERS
Autor/es:
R. J. J. WILLIAMS; J. PUIG; C.E. HOPPE; I. A. ZUCCHI; A. LEDO-SUÁREZ; M. J. GALANTE
Lugar:
San José, Costa Rica
Reunión:
Simposio; XII Simposio Latinoamericano de Polímeros (SLAP 2010), X Congreso Iberoamericano de Polímeros (CIP 2010), I Congreso Centroamericano de Nanotecnociencia, I Congreso Nacional de Nanotecnociencia, I Congreso Nacional de Polímeros,; 2010
Resumen:
Linear amphiphilic epoxy polymers synthesized by the polyaddition of diglycidyl ether of bisphenol A (DGEBA) with alkylamines like octylamine (OA), dodecylamine (DA) and hexadecylamine (HA), undergo a physical gelation process through tail-to-tail association of alkyl chains (1,2). SAXS spectra showed that tail-to-tail associations of alkyl chains were present since the beginning of polymerization and remained in the final materials. Initially, these associations correspond to micelles of the alkylamines dispersed in the solvent (DGEBA). In the course of polymerization micelles are disaggregated as the individual alkylamine chains become part of the linear amphiphilic polymer. However, tail-to-tail associations among alkyl chains attached to the polymer backbone persisted in the final materials.