Morphology of Poly(2-ethylhexyl methacrylate):Poly(butyl methacrylate) Latex Blend Films
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Abstract
This paper describes the morphology of the latex films formed from a mixture of two different latex particles: poly(butyl methacrylate) (PBMA, 120 nm) and poly(2-ethylhexyl methacrylate) (PEHMA, 100 nm). Twenty percent of the PBMA phase is labeled with 1 mol % anthracene. Using confocal fluorescence microscopy, we obtained images of the internal morphology of the dry films. Atomic force microscopy was used to image the surfaces of the films. For the same blend composition, 10 wt % PBMA and 90 wt % PEHMA, we studied the effect of two factors on the blend morphology: the presence or the absence of the surfactant SDS (ca. 2 wt % of the weight of polymers) in the dispersion and the dispersion concentration. We related the different morphologies we observed to the differences in the drying mechanisms. In the case of a surfactant-free film cast from a 5 wt % dispersion mixture, the film dried homogeneously, and we observed uniform distribution of the PBMA dispersed phase in the PEHMA matrix. In the presence of surfactant, the film dries laterally with a propagating drying front, and we observed network-like structures formed by PBMA particles in a matrix of PEHMA. The segregation of PBMA and PEHMA particles can be explained by differences in the surfactant adsorption onto PBMA and PEHMA particles.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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