Dewetting of Thin Polymer Films on Wrinkled Graphene Oxide Monolayers

Kyoung Il Jo, Tae Ho Kim, Ki In Choi, Hoyeon Lee, Jae Hak Choi, Joona Bang, Tae Hwan Kim, Guangcui Yuan, Sushil K. Satija, Jaseung Koo

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    Abstract

    We investigated the effect of the morphological structure of a graphene oxide (GO) monolayer on the dewetting dynamics of the upper polymer thin films. The Langmuir-Schaefer (LS) technique was used to prepare a wrinkled GO (wrGO) structure with a root mean square (rms) roughness of 22.7 Å. The dewetting behavior of poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) thin films on the wrGO monolayers was perfectly prevented, whereas the PMMA thin films on a flat GO monolayer were dewetted at 203 °C. This wrinkle effect of the GO can be also obtained when the GOs monolayers are intercalated to the PMMA/polystyrene (PS) interface. In this multilayer, the flat GO monolayer at the interface between the PS and PMMA layers was spontaneously roughened with rms roughness of 46.9 Å after annealing and also prohibited the dewetting behavior. From the results, we found that to improve the compatibility of polymer blends by adding the two-dimensional nanosheets, it is important to control the morphological structure of the sheets at the interface, along with manipulation of the GO-polymer interactions.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)5549-5556
    Number of pages8
    JournalLangmuir
    Volume35
    Issue number16
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2019 Apr 23

    Bibliographical note

    Funding Information:
    The authors are grateful for the deep cooperation of the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute for their offers of a better experimental environment. This work was supported by a grant from the research fund of Chungnam National University and the National Research Foundation of Korea under Contract 2017M2A2A6A01019911. The identification of commercial products does not imply endorsement by the National Institute of Standards and Technology nor does it imply that these are the best for the purpose.

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    © 2019 American Chemical Society.

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • General Materials Science
    • Condensed Matter Physics
    • Surfaces and Interfaces
    • Spectroscopy
    • Electrochemistry

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