Issue 11, 2013
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Uptake of water in as-spun poly(methyl methacrylate) thin films

Hironori Atarashi,a   Tomoyasu Hirai,a   Koichiro Hori,a   Masahiro Hino,b   Hiroshi Morita,c   Takeshi Serizawad  and  Keiji Tanaka*ae  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Applied Chemistry, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan
E-mail: k-tanaka@cstf.kyushu-u.ac.jp
Fax: +81-92-802-2880
Tel: +81-92-802-2878

b Research Reactor Institute, Kyoto University, Osaka 590-0494, Japan

c Nanosystem Research Institute (NRI), Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Ibaraki 305-8565, Japan

d Department of Organic and Polymeric Materials, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo 152-8550, Japan

e International Institute for Carbon-neutral Energy Research (WPI-I2CNER), Kyushu University, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan

Abstract

The extent of water sorption in a thin film of a typical glassy polymer, poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA), was studied by neutron reflectivity. Interestingly, the as-spun film could uptake water to 16.3 vol%, much more than the reported value of a few vol% for bulk PMMA. This can be explained in terms of the heterogeneous density distribution in the film.

Graphical abstract: Uptake of water in as-spun poly(methyl methacrylate) thin films

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Article information

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C3RA23066J
Article type
Communication
Submitted
26 Nov 2012
Accepted
22 Jan 2013
First published
23 Jan 2013

RSC Adv., 2013,3, 3516-3519

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Uptake of water in as-spun poly(methyl methacrylate) thin films

H. Atarashi, T. Hirai, K. Hori, M. Hino, H. Morita, T. Serizawa and K. Tanaka, RSC Adv., 2013, 3, 3516 DOI: 10.1039/C3RA23066J

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