A Comparative Study of Dynamic Light and X-ray Scatterings on Micelles of Topological Polymer Amphiphiles

Ree, Brian J.; Lee, Jong-Chan; Satoh, Yusuke; Kwon, Kyungho; Isono, Takuya; Satoh, Toshifumi; Ree, Moonhor

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“…Therefore, we speculated that broad distribution in R h observed from 0.5 wt % C3Ms of G + S and G + C may be explained by aggregates of spherical micelles. For more detailed structure of the spherical micelles, small-angle X-ray/neutron scattering (SAX/NS) was performed [41,56,57,58]. (Note that SAXS analysis is described in Supporting Information, where the SAXS profiles are reproduced by the core-shell sphere model in Figure S6 and Table S2)…”

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Effect of Ionic Group on the Complex Coacervate Core Micelle Structure

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Pairs of ionic group dependence of the structure of a complex coacervate core micelle (C3M) in an aqueous solution was investigated using DLS, cryo-TEM, and SANS with a contrast matching technique and a detailed model analysis. Block copolyelectrolytes were prepared by introducing an ionic group (i.e., ammonium, guanidinium, carboxylate, and sulfonate) to poly(ethylene oxide-b-allyl glycidyl ether) (NPEO = 227 and NPAGE = 52), and C3Ms were formed by simple mixing of two oppositely-charged block copolyelectrolyte solutions with the exactly same degree of polymerization. All four C3Ms are spherical with narrow distribution of micelle dimension, and the cores are significantly swollen by water, resulting in relatively low brush density of PEO chains on the core surface. With the pair of strong polyelectrolytes, core radius and aggregation number increases, which reflects that the formation of complex coacervates are significantly sensitive to the pairs of ionic groups rather than simple charge pairing.

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Effect of Ionic Group on the Complex Coacervate Core Micelle Structure

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“…X-ray scattering measurements were conducted at the 4C beamline [32,44,45,57] of the PLS-II facility (third-generation synchrotron facility of 3.0 GeV power), Pohang Accelerator Laboratory (Pohang, Korea). The X-ray beam with a wavelength λ of 0.07336 nm was used.…”

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“…Figure 2a-1 shows a representative second order autocorrelation function g 2 (q,t) constructed from the fluctuating scattered intensity I s (q,t) data measured at a fixed scattering angle of 90 • as a function of time. From the g 2 (q,t) profile, the first order autocorrelation function g 1 (q,t) (i.e., field autocorrelation function) has been extracted by using the Siegert relation [32,62,63] and then analyzed using the Malvern Zetasizer analysis software package based on the cumulant method and the non-negatively constrained least square (NNLS) deconvolution algorithm; the DLS data analysis details are given in Supporting Materials. Although the Cumulant algorithm always assumes monodispersed size distribution, interestingly it fits the g 1 (q,t) profile (Figure 2b-1), providing information on the hydrodynamic radius and polydispersity of the particle.…”

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“…To measure nanoparticle size, dynamic light scattering is currently used most widely because of the experimental simplicity and automatized data analysis scheme using the instruments developed in compact type [21][22][23][24][25][26]. However, dynamic light scattering very often provides unrealistically large size and distribution [27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34]. Electron microscopy is also widely used to characterize nanoparticles, but always requires specific measurement conditions such as dried or freeze samples and vacuum environment [35][36][37].…”

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“…There are several other methods available, including X-ray scattering, static light scattering, laser diffraction, neutron scattering, fluorescence correlation spectroscopy, sedimentation, sieving, optical particle counting, electrozone sensing, and resistive pulse sensing [42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56]. However, the individual methods have some disadvantages including detection limit and valid boundary condition, leading to differences even in the size of nanoparticle [28,32,33,40,43,49,50,[53][54][55][56]. Furthermore, they often face difficulties in analyzing measured data mathematically in a quantitative manner.…”

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A Comparative Study of Dynamic Light and X-ray Scatterings on Micelles of Topological Polymer Amphiphiles

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