Collect. Czech. Chem. Commun.
1993, 58, 71-76
https://doi.org/10.1135/cccc19930071
Study of Sedimentation Velocity of Block Copolymer Micelles
Minmin Tian, C. Ramireddy, Stephen E. Webber and Petr Munk
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Center for Polymer Research, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, U.S.A.
Abstract
No anomalies were observed during the measurement of sedimentation coefficients of block copolymer micelles formed by copolymers of styrene and methacrylic acid in a mixed solvent; 80 vol.% of dioxane and 20 vol.% of water. The shapes of the sedimenting boundaries suggest that the size heterogeneity of the micelles is small. Linear relations between 1/s and c were obtained. The value of the hydrodynamic coefficient κ was between 2 and 4 in a good agreement with the value 2.75 or 2.86 that was obtained by combining Burgers' or Fixman's values of the coefficient of the concentration dependence kvs for hard spheres with Einstein's value of [η] for spheres.
