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American Chemical Society, Macromolecules, 1(43), p. 299-305, 2009

DOI: 10.1021/ma9018069

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Concentration Effect on the Oriented Microstructure in Tensile Drawn Polyfluorene-Polyethylene Blend

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Abstract

We report on the segregation and microstructure of poly[9,9-bis(2-ethylhexyl)-fluorene] (PF2/6) blended in polyethylene (PE) aligned by tensile drawing at elevated temperature. X-ray diffraction and photoluminescence data indicate that when the PF2/6 fraction is high (7-15 wt %), PF2/6 assembles in uniaxially aligned crystallites (the coherence length similar to 32 nm) segregated within the PE matrix. The full-width-half-maximum of the PF2/6 crystallite orientation distribution about the stretching direction is <= 10 degrees. No significant macrophase separation is observed with A FM or optical and fluorescence microscopy. When the PF2/6 fraction is low (0.25 wt %), aligned PF2/6 forms a frozen-in nematic-like phase. The aligned polymers remain closely located bill their coherence length is significantly decreased (similar to 8 nm), which is attributed to the decreased crystallite size. This behavior differs from that of poly(phenylene-vinylene) type polymers and the difference is rationalized by compatibility and entanglement arguments.