Abstract
Glass transition for atactic poly(methyl methacrylate) (a-PMMA) prepared in nano-cells by microemulsion polymerization was measured at a faster heating rate after slow cooling of the sample from a temperature above Tg. An additional enthalpy relaxation and glass transition were observed at higher temperatures for the a-PMMA sample due to the partial organization of the chain segments which occurred during microemulsion polymerization. The re-precipitated a-PMMA did not show any self-organization under the same thermal conditions, although there are no changes in molecular weight or tacticity of the polymer chains. A depletion-interaction phenomenon was understood to provide entropic force for the self-organization of polymer chains inside the walls of the microemulsion cells.
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