High frequency acoustic excitations in ordered diblock copolymer studied by inelastic x-ray scattering

H Kriegs; W Steffen; G Fytas; G Monaco; C Dreyfus; P Fragouli; M Pitsikalis; N Hadjichristidis

doi:10.1063/1.1767520

High frequency acoustic excitations in ordered diblock copolymer studied by inelastic x-ray scattering

J Chem Phys. 2004 Aug 1;121(5):2376-80. doi: 10.1063/1.1767520.

Authors

H Kriegs¹, W Steffen, G Fytas, G Monaco, C Dreyfus, P Fragouli, M Pitsikalis, N Hadjichristidis

Affiliation

¹ Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, D-55128 Mainz, Germany.

PMID: 15260792
DOI: 10.1063/1.1767520

Abstract

The phonon propagation in lamellar nanostructures formed via self-assembling of short styrene-b-isoprene (SI) as well as of its more incompatible styrene-b-(ethylene-alt-propylene) (SEP) counterpart was studied by inelastic x-ray scattering. Irrespective of the physical state of the block copolymers, a single acoustic phonon was observed in SI (ordered and disordered) and SEP (ordered). At GHz frequencies, inelastic light scattering from the same samples revealed very small dispersion in the sound phase velocity but a short phonon lifetime.