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Fig. 6. The ripple experiment at the interface between a bilayer of HDH- and DHD-labeled polystyrene, showing the interdifussion behavior of matching chains. The protonated sections of the chain are marked by filled circles. The D concentration profiles are shown on the right. Top the initial interface at / = 0. The D concentration profile is flat, since there is 50% deuteration on each side of the interface. Middle the interface after the chain ends have diffused across (x < / g). The deuterated chains from Que side enrich the deuterated centers on the other side, vice ver.sa for the protonated sections, and the ripple in the depth profile of D results. A ripple of opposite sign occurs for the H profile. Bottom the interface when the molecules have fully diffused across. The D profile becomes flat [20,56].

Figure 10.7 The phase diagram (a) and the glass transition temperatures (b) of a PSC/PVME mixture obtained, respectively, by light scattering and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). Irradiation experiments were performed in the miscible region at 127 C indicated by (X) in the figure of trans-cinnamic acid-labeled polystyrene/poly(vinyl methyl ether) blends.

Richards and Slater (75) used a labelled polystyrene to demonstrate the existence of intermolecular chain transfer in the thermal degradation process. Polystyrene-14C, prepared in the normal way, was mixed with an inactive polystyrene specially prepared with weak links so that it degraded at temperatures where the polystyrene-14C was stable when on its own. Appearance of styrene- C monomer in the volatile degradation products proved the existence of intermolecular chain transfer (Reaction 9). 

Labelled polystyrene-14C (PS-14C) was the adsorbate. Two batches were prepared by an identical procedure with only one of them containing radioactive 14C. The labelled polymer was used for the adsorption measurements, whereas the unlabelled polymer was used for the determination of the solution properties. The polystyrene was prepared by emulsion polymerization of redistilled styrene. In order to remove unreacted monomer the polystyrene was freeze-dried from benzene solution. 

In the method proposed by Valeur monofunctional living monodisperse chains are prepared and deactivated by 9-10-bis(bromomethyl)anthracene. The resultant chains contain dimethyl anthracene in their middle, as shown in Fig. 3 (This figure represents labelled polystyrene, but other polymers can be labelled too). Anthracene is a particularly convenient label since it is rigid and rather small, it has a good quantum yield and it is easy to excite. When it is bounded in 1,9 positions, its... 

These results were corroborated by studies of labelled polystyrene in other solvents as toluene, styrene and pure tripropionin, at different temperatures. The main conclusions of these studies of polymer dynamics in dilute solution are the following ones ... 

However, Valeur and coworkers used a lattice rotational-isomeric tetrahedral chain model for the interpretation of the data on PL (with the aid of a pulsed method and quenching, in labeled polystyrene. 

Telechelic PMMA can be obtained from MI-13 with Ni-2 as a catalyst.414 Anthrathene-labeled polystyrene can be synthesized with the copper-catalyzed polymerizations initiated with MI-14 the aromatic tag or probe is located near the midpoint of a polymer chain.415 Dibromoacetates MI-15 and MI-16 are commercially available and effective for methacrylates, acrylates, and styrene with nickel and copper catalysts.134,256,360-362 The resultant telechelic polymers have been subsequently employed for the synthesis of various ABA triblock copolymers. 

Diffusion coefficient of trace amounts of deuterium-labelled polystyrene P-mers into polystyrene A -mer melts at 174 for six P-mers open circles M= 55 000gmor filled circles M= 1 lOOOOgmol open squares... 

Varela JA, Bexiga MG, Aberg C, Simpson JC, Dawson KA (2012) Quantifying size-dependent interactions between fluorescently labeled polystyrene nanoparticles and mammalian cells. J Nanobiotechnology 24 10-39... 

It is worth noting that this expression also gives the best fit for FAD curves of labeled polystyrene in solution ( 5 ). 

Viovy, Monnerie, and Brochon have performed fluorescence anisotropy decay measurements on the nanosecond time scale on dilute solutions of anthracene-labeled polystyrene( ). In contrast to our results on labeled polyisoprene, Viovy, et al. reported that their Generalized Diffusion and Loss model (see Table I) fit their results better than the Hall-Helfand or Bendler-Yaris models. This conclusion is similar to that recently reached by Sasaki, Yamamoto, and Nishijima 3 ) after performing fluorescence measurements on anthracene-labeled polyCmethyl methacrylate). These differences in the observed correlation function shapes could be taken either to reflect the non-universal character of local motions, or to indicate a significant difference between chains of moderate flexibility and high flexibility. Further investigations will shed light on this point. 

Result 1 contradicts the preceding result displayed in Fig. 15.4, where q2H(q) tends towards a constant. The contradiction is only apparent, because the model chain of Yoon and Flory and the real polystyrene chain are different. The explanation has been found thanks to a very precise experiment carried out by Rawiso and Picot.11 These experimentalists prepared their samples of atactic polystyrene in the following way the chains were made of partially deuterated monomers, in which only the protons directly bound to the skeleton carbons are replaced by deuterium atoms. The labelled chains are immersed in a non-labelled polystyrene melt. Therefore, only the correlations between points close to the skeleton contribute to the form function. The result of the experiment (Fig. 15.5, curve a) is qualitatively in agreement with the predictions of Yoon and Flory, who in fact accounted only for the carbon skeleton in their calculation. The persistence length associated with the form function of Fig. 15.5, curve a, is... 

Prochazka K, Kiserow D, Ramireddy C, Tuzar Z, Munk P, Webber SE. Time-resolved fluorescence studies on the chain dynamics of naphthalene-labeled polystyrene-block-poly-(methacrylic acid) micelles in aqueous media. Macromolecules 1992 25 454 60. 

Table 6.1 Critical overlap concentration, C, for polystyrene coils in solution measured by energy transfer between carbazole- and anthracene-labeled polystyrene chains...

The next step was to improve the stability of the system and - even more importantly - to improve the transmission of the fiber tips. Metalization of the tip is the key and produces superior properties, such as a near-field spot of less than 20 nm [107-110]. Zeisel et al. reported that metalization led to optical transmission of a fiber higher than that of conventional fibers by several orders of magnitude [111]. The authors showed images based on the fluorescence of dye-labeled polystyrene spheres and noted that fast and irreversible photobleaching takes place in the near field with enhanced intensity. In addition, they reported on surface-enhanced near-field Raman spectra of cresol fast violet and p-aminobenzoic acid adsorbed on a (rough) silver substrate, exhibiting a signal-to-noise ratio of >10 [111]. 

Priestley RD, Broadbelt LJ, Torkelson JM, Fukao K (2007) Glass transition and a-relaxation dynamics of thin films of labeled polystyrene. Phys Rev E 75 061806... 

FIGURE 44.1 Fluorescently labeled polystyrene particles gathered in the pressure nodal plane (in plane with the image focus) of an acoustic standing wave by the primary acoustic radiation force in a 70 xm deep microchannel. The microbeads are also clustered in a dense hexagonal pattern by Bjerknes forces. 

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