在光敏性三元聚合物混合物中构造多尺度有序图案

Multi-scale ordered patterns in photosensitive ternary polymer mixtures

由多组分聚合物混合物所形成的多尺度有序结构能够展现出许多新奇的物理化学性质,从而使其在材料工程领域具有十分重要的潜在应用价值.本文通过计算机模拟,在光敏性不相容三元混合物体系中创建了多尺度有序结构.通过调节光照区域和掩膜形状,获得了棋盘形、箭靶状等十分独特的形貌,并且这些结构可以在实验上通过在适当的时间淬火而稳定较长的时间.详细探讨了组分比、掩膜宽度、间距以及光照强度对体系的影响,从而为实现多尺度长程序花样薄膜的制备提供了一个简便的途径,同时也为纳米器件的制备提供了一定的指导.

Multi-scale ordered patterns of multi-component polymer mixtures can reveal many peculiar chemical and physical properties,which makes these systems have very important potential applications in materials engineering.Via computer simulation,we create interesting ordered multi-scale structures in photosensitive and immiscible polymer mixtures.The system that we employed comprises a ternary,molten A/B/C polymer blends and the three components are mutually immiscible.Polymer C is non-optically active,while polymers A and B can exhibit reversible chemical reaction A→←B induced by light.Firstly,we investigate the phase behavior of the ternary blend guided by cross-stripy mask and light,and find that a chessboard-like ordered pattern forms in the mixture before removing the mask.In the illuminated regions,the A and C components gather into ellipsoidal core-shell structures in the uncrossed illuminated area,while the A and B components gather into star structures in the crossed stripes regions.When we remove the mask,the entire system becomes illuminated,and the reaction AB occurs throughout the film：the ellipsoidal core-shell structures of A and C components turn to spherical structures,and the star structures of A and B components turn into concentric square ring structures.Then we show the influences of the number of cross stripes and the initial composition on the formation of structure.The average spatial volume fraction of C component first increases and then decreases with the stripy number increasing and the C component net lattices play an important role in the stability of ordered structures.Secondly,when the blend is covered by the annular mask,the C component gathers to the illuminated regions and the A and B components are in radial arrangement.As a result,the mixture forms an interesting dartboard-like pattern.However,when the mask is removed,the photochemical reactions occur in the A and B components of the whole region,the increasing of free energy induces the dartboard-like pattern to be broken and to change into dots-ring structure and then it forms a perfect concentric ring pattern and the target-like pattern.And also,we show the effects of initial composition ratio of C component,the distance between two adjacent rings D,the ring width d,and the illumination intensity on the evolution of ordered structure.The larger the initial composition ratio of C component,the more easily the ordered target-like pattern forms;the larger the distance D and the smaller the width d,the better the pinning effect of C component is.The illumination intensity has little influence on the ordered morphology of the ternary system.We provide a simple approach to creating multi-scale patterned films with long-range order,which could guide us in fabricating nanoscale devices.