Synthesis and characterisation of side chain liquid crystal copolymers containing sulfonic acid groups

A Martinez-Felipe; Z.B. Lu; P.A. Henderson; Stephen J. Picken; Ben Norder; Corrie T. Imrie; Amparo Ribes-Greus

doi:10.1016/j.polymer.2012.02.029

Synthesis and characterisation of side chain liquid crystal copolymers containing sulfonic acid groups

A Martinez-Felipe, Z.B. Lu, P.A. Henderson, Stephen J. Picken, Ben Norder, Corrie T. Imrie, Amparo Ribes-Greus

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Abstract

A series of novel side chain liquid crystal copolymers, the poly[10-(4-methoxy-4'-oxy-azobenzene) decyl methacrylate]-co-poly[2-acrylamido-2-methyl-1-propanesulfonic acid]s (10-MeOAzB/AMPS-x/y) have been synthesised by free radical copolymerisation. The mol fraction of the sulfonic acid-based group, AMPS, has been varied over a broad range of composition in the copolymers, and these have been characterised using differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), polarised light microscopy (PLM), Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) and X-ray diffraction (XRD). The liquid crystal homopolymer and copolymers containing up to 0.54 mol fraction AMPS-based units, all exhibit a smectic A phase, while at higher mol fraction AMPS-based groups, liquid crystallinity is extinguished and the copolymers are amorphous. The local packing arrangements within the smectic A phase varies with composition attributed, in part, to phase separation between acid rich domains and liquid crystal regions. The dependence of the transitional properties on copolymer composition may be interpreted in terms of the packing efficiency of the mesogenic side chains and hydrogen bonding between the sulfonic acid groups, as a consequence of increasing the concentration of acid-based groups. (c) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2604-2612
Number of pages	9
Journal	Polymer
Volume	53
Issue number	13
Early online date	23 Feb 2012
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polymer.2012.02.029
Publication status	Published - 7 Jun 2012

Bibliographical note

The authors thank the financial support of the Generalitat Valenciana, through the Grisolia and Forteza programs, and the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, through the Research Projects ENE2007-67584-C03, UPOVCE-3E-013, ENE 2011-28735-CO2-01 and IT-2009-0074 and the awarding of two FPI and FPU pre-doctoral grants.

Keywords

side chain liquid crystal copolymers
sulfonic acid
hydrogen bonding
methanol fuel-cell
polymer electrolytes
thermal-properties
transitional properties
ion-transport
backbone flexibility
nonmesogenic units
spacer length
ionomers
polystyrene

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Synthesis and characterisation of side chain liquid crystal copolymers containing sulfonic acid groups

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