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    Monolayer Behavior and LB Film Structure of Poly(2-methoxy-5-(n-hexadecyloxy)-p-phenylene vinylene)

    Year: 2001

    Journal: Langmuir 2001, 17, 7267-7273, 20111221

    Authors: Zhongkui Wu, Sanxie Wu, and Yingqiu Liang

    Organizations: Laboratory of Mesoscopic Materials and Chemistry and State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, People's Republic of China

    A PPV derivative, poly(2-methoxy, 5-(n-hexadecyloxy)-p-phenylenevinylene) (MH-PPV), has been synthesized by the Gilch route to study the influence of long alkyl side chains on the organization behavior of film at the air-water interface and multilayer structure obtained by Langmuir-Blodgett technique. The π-A isotherm, hysteresis, and film stability are used to characterize the behavior of a monolayer film at the air-water interface. Small-angle X-ray diffraction (SAXRD), UV-visible spectra, and FTIR are applied to study the conformation and orientation of the MH-PPV molecules in multilayer organization. MH-PPV is apt to form a stable and transferable monolayer film. The adjacent conjugated main chains of MH-PPV in LB films are aligned in side-by-side parallel fashion and packed with the plane of its π system approximately perpendicular to the layer plane (H-aggregate structure). The long alkyl side chains are characterized by all trans-zigzag conformation and average tilt angle (26.5 ± 1.5°) obtained by means of both FTIR and SAXRD. The LB films of MH-PPV are well ordered with layer-by-layer structure and a d-space of 49.9 Å.