Abstract
Polymerization in lyotropic liquid crystalline (LLC) media is a promising method enabling synthesis of nanostructured organic polymers. To understand polymer structure development in LLC systems, this study investigates the polymerization of acrylate monomers of differing polarity and size within the hexagonal and lamellar phase of dodecyltrimethylammonium bromide and water. LLC structure, polymer morphology, and polymerization behavior were characterized to understand the connection between polymerization environment and formation of polymer structure. While the order of the template phase highly influences final polymer order, variations in monomer chemistry can lead to significantly different polymer structures even from the same liquid crystalline phase. More rapid polymerization, which leads to higher conversion and higher cross-link density of the relatively low molecular weight monomers, yields highly anisotropic polymer structure exhibiting alignment of 800 nm channels extending for lengths greate...
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