Abstract
Polymer brushes forming the outer shells of micellar aggregates of A–B diblock copolymers in a selective solvent allow for the observation of collective relaxational motions via neutron spin-echo spectroscopy. New neutron spin-echo investigations on planar PEB-brushes on the surface of crystalline PE-cores of platelet-like aggregates are reported. The data are discussed in comparison to a continuum model of the brush assuming a parabolic density profile, semidilute solution scaling relations for the elastic properties and friction coefficient. For the planar brush a full 3D solution of the model is accessible. The observed scattering from an isotropic sample is compatible with the continuum model with an added static fluctuation contribution.
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