Abstract
Aqueous solutions of the doubly thermosensitive block copolymer poly(2-isopropyl-2-oxazoline)-b-poly(2-ethyl-2-oxazoline) heated to 50 °C underwent a macroscopic liquid/liquid phase separation. The small-angle X-ray scattering intensity recorded from the concentrated phase settled on the bottom of a sample indicated that this phase was in the disordered state without any microphase separation, although the block copolymer was amphiphilic in water at 50 °C. It was also confirmed that the contribution to the scattering intensities of individual copolymer chains and their aggregates existing in the coexisting concentrated phase was very small, compared with the total scattering intensity of the phase-separated solution, when the concentrated phase was suspended in the form of colloidal droplets in the lean phase. The small-angle X-ray scattering intensity from the coexisting concentrated phase was measured in a phase-separated aqueous solution of the thermosensitive block copolymer poly(2-isopropyl-2-oxazoline)-b-poly(2-ethyl-2-oxazoline) under amphiphilic conditions (50 °C). The concentrated phase was disordered with no sign of micro phase separation. In addition, the scattering from individual copolymer chains and their aggregates existing in the concentrated phase hardly contributed to the total scattering intensity of the phase-separated colloidal solution of the block copolymer.
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