PMID- 18925752
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
DCOM- 20090922
LR  - 20090828
IS  - 0743-7463 (Print)
IS  - 0743-7463 (Linking)
VI  - 25
IP  - 7
DP  - 2009 Apr 7
TI  - GIUSAXS and AFM studies on surface reconstruction of latex thin films during 
      thermal treatment.
PG  - 4230-4
LID - 10.1021/la801527y [doi]
AB  - The structural evolution of a single-layer latex film during annealing was 
      studied via grazing incidence ultrasmall-angle X-ray scattering (GIUSAXS) and 
      atomic force microscopy (AFM). The latex particles were composed of a low-Tg (-54 
      degrees C) core (n-butylacrylate, 30 wt %) and a high-Tg (41 degrees C) shell 
      (t-butylacrylate, 70 wt %) and had an overall diameter of about 500 nm. GIUSAXS 
      data indicate that the q(y) scan at q(z) = 0.27 nm(-1) (out-of-plane scan) 
      contains information about both the structure factor and the form factor. The 
      GIUSAXS data on latex films annealed at various temperatures ranging from room 
      temperature to 140 degrees C indicate that the structure of the latex thin film 
      beneath the surface changed significantly. The evolution of the out-of-plane scan 
      plot reveals the surface reconstruction of the film. Furthermore, we also 
      followed the time-dependent behavior of structural evolution when the latex film 
      was annealed at a relatively low temperature (60 degrees C) where restructuring 
      within the film can be followed that cannot be detected by AFM, which detects 
      only surface morphology. Moreover, compared to AFM studies GIUSAXS provides 
      averaged information covering larger areas.
FAU - Hu, Shanshan
AU  - Hu S
AD  - State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Changchun Institute of 
      Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Graduate School of the Chinese 
      Academy of Sciences, Renmin Street 5625, 130022 Changchun, PR China.
FAU - Rieger, Jens
AU  - Rieger J
FAU - Roth, Stephan V
AU  - Roth SV
FAU - Gehrke, Rainer
AU  - Gehrke R
FAU - Leyrer, Reinhold J
AU  - Leyrer RJ
FAU - Men, Yongfeng
AU  - Men Y
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - United States
TA  - Langmuir
JT  - Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids
JID - 9882736
EDAT- 2008/10/18 09:00
MHDA- 2008/10/18 09:01
CRDT- 2008/10/18 09:00
PHST- 2008/10/18 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2008/10/18 09:01 [medline]
PHST- 2008/10/18 09:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1021/la801527y [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Langmuir. 2009 Apr 7;25(7):4230-4. doi: 10.1021/la801527y.