% IMPORTANT: The following is UTF-8 encoded. This means that in the presence % of non-ASCII characters, it will not work with BibTeX 0.99 or older. % Instead, you should use an up-to-date BibTeX implementation like “bibtex8” or % “biber”. @ARTICLE{Uchman:22571, author = {Uchman, M. and Stepanek, M. and Prevost, S. and Angelov, B. and Bednar, J. and Appavou, M.-S. and Gradzielski, M. and Prochazka, K.}, title = {{C}oassembly of {P}oly(ethylene oxide)-block-poly(methacrylic acis) and {N}-{D}odecylpyridinium {C}hloride in {A}queous {S}olutions {L}eading to {O}rdered {M}icellar {A}ssemblies within {C}opolymer {A}ggregates}, journal = {Macromolecules}, volume = {45}, issn = {0024-9297}, address = {Washington, DC}, publisher = {Soc.}, reportid = {PreJuSER-22571}, pages = {6471 - 6480}, year = {2012}, note = {The authors acknowledge the financial support from the Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic (long-term Research Project No. MSM0021620857) and the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (Grants P208/10/0353, P208/12/P236, P205/11/J043, and P106/12/0143) and German Academic Exchange Service DAAD (Grants 2B08021 and D0804221 PPP-CZ-09-10, PKZ: 50016729). This research project has been supported by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme through the Key Action: Strengthening the European Research Area, Research Infrastructures. Contract: 226507 (NMI3). For allocation of beam time we are grateful to ILL (Grenoble, France), ESFR (Grenoble, France), and Diamond (Didcot, UK). BA. acknowledges user support from the Diamond Light Source (Didcot, Oxfordshire, UK; Proposal SM3313, Beamline I22) and ESRF (Grenoble, France, Proposal SC3113, Beamline ID02) and thanks Drs. S. Filippov, P. Stepanek, N. Terrill, J. Gummel, and T. Narayanan for cooperation and support.}, abstract = {Formation of polyelectrolyte-surfactant (PE-S) complexes of poly(ethylene oxide)-block-poly(methacrylic acid) (PEO705-PMAA(476)) and N-dodecylpyridinium chloride (DPCl) in aqueous solution was studied by static and dynamic light scattering (SLS, DLS), small-angle neutron scattering (SANS), small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS), and cryogenic transmission electron microscopy (cryo-TEM). While it was found previously [Macromolecules 1997, 30, 3519] by microcalorimetric titration that in a similar system (PEO176-PMAA(186)) crystallization of aliphatic tails of N-dodecylpyridinium bromide did not occur, in our system it was evidenced by SAXS that upon addition of DPCl to fully ionized PEO705-PMAA(476) the ordered arrangement of the surfactant occurs in a certain range of PEO705-PMAA(476) concentrations and surfactant-to-polyelectrolyte charge molar ratio (Z). Our data suggest a four-step process in the behavior of the PEO705-PMAA(476)/DPCl system: (I) coexistence of loose aggregates of electrostatically bound surfactants to PMAA block with free and almost unperturbed copolymer coils at Z << 1, (ii) formation of aggregates containing ill-defined cores formed by DPCl micelles attached to coiled PMAA chains (beads-on-a-string nanoparticles) in the range around Z = 0.5, (iii) formation of compact core-shell nanoparticles with a core formed by densely packed ordered (crystalline) DPCl micelles and PEO shell starting slightly before charge equimolarity (Z = 1), and (iv) the region of coexistence of the core shell nanoparticles with free DPCl micelles in excess above equimolarity (Z >> 1). In the region around Z = 0.5, the nanoparticles with nonordered cores coexist in a mixture either with a fraction free chains and large swollen nanoparticles decorated by surfactant micelles (at lower Z) or with the core shell nanoparticles (at higher Z). PE-S complexes were characterized in detail in terms of molar mass, size, shape, and internal structure.}, keywords = {J (WoSType)}, cin = {ICS-1 / JCNS (München) ; Jülich Centre for Neutron Science JCNS (München) ; JCNS-FRM-II / JCNS-1}, ddc = {540}, cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)ICS-1-20110106 / I:(DE-Juel1)JCNS-FRM-II-20110218 / I:(DE-Juel1)JCNS-1-20110106}, pnm = {BioSoft: Makromolekulare Systeme und biologische Informationsverarbeitung (FUEK505) / 544 - In-house Research with PNI (POF2-544) / NMI3 - Integrated Infrastructure Initiative for Neutron Scattering and Muon Spectroscopy (226507)}, pid = {G:(DE-Juel1)FUEK505 / G:(DE-HGF)POF2-544 / G:(EU-Grant)226507}, experiment = {EXP:(DE-MLZ)KWS2-20140101}, shelfmark = {Polymer Science}, typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16}, UT = {WOS:000307988500018}, doi = {10.1021/ma301510j}, url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/22571}, }