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Record W1957525734 · doi:10.1088/0954-0083/12/4/308

Physico-Chemical Investigation of Multiple Asymmetric Amphiphilic Diblock Copolymer Morphologies in Solution

2000· article· en· W1957525734 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueHigh Performance Polymers · 2000
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldChemistry
TopicAdvanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterization
Canadian institutionsMcGill University
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaAmerican Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund
KeywordsCopolymerMicelleMaterials scienceGibbs free energyEnthalpySolventAmphiphilePolymerThermodynamicsPhase (matter)Phase diagramChemical engineeringPolymer chemistryChemistryPhysical chemistryOrganic chemistryAqueous solution

Abstract

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Asymmetric amphiphilic diblock copolymers are able to form self-assembled crewcut aggregates of multiple morphologies in selective solvents. Micelles are formed by the slow addition of a poor solvent, for the core-forming block, to a solution of the copolymer dissolved in a solvent suitable for both polymer segments. The morphology of the aggregates is affected by a number of factors, such as the solvent composition, the block lengths, the presence of additives, and the temperature. Some of the resulting structures are considered to be equilibrium or near-equilibrium morphologies, which can be kinetically frozen using a number of different techniques. The thermodynamics of micelle formation has been investigated, and equations for the standard Gibbs free energy, enthalpy, and entropy have been formulated. Partial phase diagrams have been constructed, giving the morphological phase boundaries. Knowledge of the location of the boundaries has paved the way for the study of the kinetics and mechanisms of the sphere to rod and rod to vesicle transitions. Both processes have two-step mechanisms, with the second step being rate determining in each case.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.114
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.011
GPT teacher head0.208
Teacher spread0.197 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it