Abstract
ABSTRACTUnderstanding the conformational changes of polymeric chains in solutions is an essential and integral part of polymer physics. By increasing the concentration of polymer solutions from dilute to semidilute regime, the critical chain overlapping has been reported at the concentration termed as C*. In this study, the associated inter‐ and intrachain conformational transitions in polystyrene (PS) solutions are reported. By comparing the spectroscopic intensity ratio versus concentration for an intrachain PS system, a break point was observed in good solvent which coincided with the theoretically predicted C*. Moreover, the intrachain conformation showed no obvious change below C*, while significant collapse started to occur above C*. This result reveals a new insight in polymer physics, since traditionally the size of polymer chains is considered to decrease weakly regarding the concentration change in the semidilute regime. It is important to find such an abrupt intrachain conformational transition between the dilute and semidilute solutions and provide the first experimental observation that inter‐ and intrachain conformational transitions are correlated to one the other. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Polym. Sci., Part B: Polym. Phys. 2017, 55, 1373–1379
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