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Spatiotemporal Sequence of Interdependent Nucleation Mechanisms in Ultrathin Polymer Films
Da Huang, Rana Bakhshi, Raoul M. D'Anselme, Günter Reiter. Macromolecules, published online
Employing defined starting conditions of ultrathin molten poly(ethylene oxide) films on model solid substrates, we investigated the spatiotemporal sequence of interdependent mechanisms of crystal nucleation. Due to the limited number and the preferred conformation of polymer chains parallel to the substrate, primary nucleation favored edge-on lamellar crystals, which indirectly induced other subsequent nucleation pathways, enabled through the molten polymer chains accumulated at their peripheral fold surfaces. Both additional edge-on lamellar crystals and branched flat-on lamellar crystals were initiated. For long-chain polymers, spatial correlations between lamellar crystals across intervening noncrystalline regions were established through polymer chains incorporated within neighboring lamellae. (more...)
Decai Lin, Zebin Su, Yuxiang Chen, Jianquan Xu, Günter Reiter, Cuiyun Zhang, Xinping Wang. Macromolecules 59 (2026) 4970–4981
Using infrared reflection–absorption spectroscopy and atomic force microscopy, we revealed that polymer–substrate interactions, chain length, and film thickness critically influenced the morphology and orientation of lamellar crystals of poly(l-lactide) (PLLA) grown at a constant temperature. In contrast to the often-observed monotonic change from preferentially flat-on to edge-on crystals upon increasing film thickness, an unprecedented nonmonotonic change in the dominating orientation of lamellar crystals from edge-on to flat-on and back to edge-on was observed. In the thinnest films, size confinement and adsorption-induced alignment of the chains favored the nucleation and growth of edge-on lamellar crystals. Enhanced polymer–substrate interactions promoted the formation of edge-on lamellar crystals in the thinnest films with a higher molecular weight. (more..)
Anmol Arya, Solomon L. Joseph, Francois Vonau, Jean-Luc Bubendorff, Silvia Siegenführ, Laurent Simon, Günter Reiter. J. Phys. Chem. C 2026, 130, 5536–5546
In the course of electrospraying in a vacuum, polymers acquire electric charges, which are distributed along their backbone. Here, we demonstrate that these charges have a strong impact on the molecular ordering and spectroscopic properties of conjugated polymers when deposited on substrates with an insulating oxide layer. To this end, we electrosprayed varying amounts of poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) onto silicon substrates with oxide layers of different thickness. The resulting morphologies were explored by atomic force microscopy. The corresponding spectroscopic properties, including their changes in time upon illumination, were derived from photoluminescence (PL) measurements. On insulating substrates, charges were retained on the polymer chains, causing long-range electrostatic repulsion and the formation of largely separated droplet-like objects containing multiple chains. These objects exhibited significant PL intensities for photons with a wavelength (λ) less than ca. 600 nm, suggesting the lack of π–π stacking interactions between P3HT chains. (more...)
Reversible Metamorphosis of a Conjugated Polymer Induced by Photoexcitation
Solomon Joseph, Anmol Arya, Günter Reiter. Advanced Photonics Research 7 (2026) e202500311
Optoelectronic properties of materials are frequently examined through spectroscopic tools based on the absorption and emission of (visible) photons. Typically, one assumes that these transient characterization processes do not cause observable change of these properties because of the low power of the employed light sources. However, for flexible conjugated polymers in a medium of low viscosity, it is decidedly unclear whether photoexcitation of electrons on the backbone of a long polymer chain has an influence on macromolecular conformations and the corresponding intermolecular interactions. Here, we provide clear experimental evidence that continuous absorption of photons progressively causes persistent changes in the spectroscopic properties of conjugated polymers, accompanied by microscopically observable changes in their spatial distribution within a low-viscosity matrix. By contrast, all these changes were completely absent in nonilluminated parts of the same sample.(more...)
Temperature dependence of crystal – melt coexistence for supported polyethylene filaments
Da Huang, Thorsten Hugel, Bizan N. Balzer, Günter Reiter. Nature Communications 16 (2025) 11127
The broken symmetry of molecular interactions at interfaces is causing that crystals are often covered by a thin liquid layer of their own melt. Such crystal–melt coexistence can be related to phenomena of surface premelting, secondary nucleation and melting point depression, particularly important for small systems. Here, we employed intermittent-contact mode atomic force microscopy imaging on nanoscopic semi-cylindrical filaments of polyethylene on a substrate to observe that these filaments contained a crystalline core bounded by molten regions of rather uniform width, W_soft= (9 ± 2) nm at room temperature, which increased reversibly with temperature T. Filaments smaller than ca. 2∙W_soft (T) were completely molten. The values of W_soft (T) compared favorably with theoretically predicted characteristic length scales in the context of nucleation, surface premelting and the melting point depression of finite size crystals. Altogether, we show that these three phenomena are related and dominated by the intermolecular forces acting at crystal surfaces. (more...)
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- Role of Intermolecular Interactions in Pattern Formation in Unstable Thin Films
- A. Sharma, G. Reiter. Metals Materials and Processes 10, 287-302 (1998)
- The artistic side of intermolecular forces
- G. Reiter. Science 282, 888-889 (1998)
- Structure and dynamics of structure formation in model triarm star block copolymers of polystyrene, poly(ethylene oxide), and poly(epsilon-caprolactone)
- G. Floudas, G. Reiter, O. Lambert, P. Dumas. Macromolecules 31, 7279-7290 (1998)
- Crystallisation of Adsorbed Polymer Monolayers
- G. Reiter, J.-U. Sommer. Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3771 (1998)
- Deformation of a Glassy Polymer Film by Long-Range Intermolecular Forces
- M.O. David, G. Reiter, T. Sitthai, J. Schultz. Langmuir 14, 5667-5672 (1998)
- Capillary waves on a poly(vinylacetate) surface studied by off-specular diffuse X-ray scattering
- S. Bauer, G.R. Strobl. Polymer Bulletin 40, 291-296 (1998)
- Superheating effects during the melting of crystallites of syndiotactic polypropylene analysed by temperature-modulated differential scanning calorimetry
- J.E.K. Schawe, G.R. Strobl. Polymer 39, 3745-3751 (1998)
- The role of co-units in polymer crystallization and melting: New insights from studies on syndiotactic poly(propene-co-octene)
- G. Hauser, J. Schmidtke, G. Strobl. Macromolecules 31, 6250-6258 (1998)
- Synthesis and microphase separation of diblock copolymers of styrene and p-chlorostyrene prepared by using N-oxyl capped macroinitiators
- S. Butz, J. Hillermann, G. Schmidt-Naake, J. Kressler, R. Thomann, B. Heck, B. Stühn. Acta Polymerica 49, 693-699 (1998)
- La réflectivité des polymères
- G. Reiter. Chapitre VIII dans les actes de l'ecole française de réflectivité, à Marseille 1997, Eds. A. Gibaud, J. Daillant
- Surfactants: Eigenschaften und Einsatz in der Beschichtungstechnik
- G. Reiter. Kapitel 5: in Grundlagen und Verfahren der Beschichtungstechnik, Kurzlehrgang, Erlangen 1997
- Connectors in Adhesion and Contact Angle Hysteresis
- G. Reiter, A. Casoli, A. Sharma, P. Auroy. Dans les actes de JADH'97: 9émes Journées d'Etudes sur l'Adhesion, Sept. 1997 in St. Lary/F, Edition SFV, Paris 1997, p. 68-73
- Large-scale heterogeneities in entangled polymer solutions. Light-scattering study on polystyrene in toluene
- M. Heckmeier, M. Mix, G. Strobl. Macromolecules 30, 4454-4458 (1997)
- A four-state scheme for treating polymer crystallization and melting suggested by calorimetric and small angle X-ray scattering experiments on syndiotactic polypropylene
- J. Schmidtke, G. Strobl, T. ThurnAlbrecht. Macromolecules 30, 5804-5821 (1997)
- The Effect of Dissolved Side-Group Polymers on Pattern Dynamics in Nematic Liquid Crystals in a Rotating Magnetic Field
- E.E. Pashkovsky, W. Stille, G. Strobl and D. Talebi. J. Phys. II France 7 (1997) 707-727
- Structural transition in a nematic LC block copolymer induced by the transition to the LC phase
- J. Sänger, W. Gronski, S. Maas, B. Stühn, B. Heck. Macromolecules 30, 6783-6787 (1997)
- A new approach to polymer crystallization used in an analysis of data of syndiotactic polypropylene
- Gert Strobl. Acta Polymerica 48, 562-570 (1997)
- Director field patterns of nematic polymer solutions at asynchronous rotation in a magnetic field
- E. Pashkovsky, W. Stille, G. Strobl and D. Talebi. Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 302, 403 (1997)
- SAXS and TEM studies on poly(styrene)-block-poly(ethene-co-but-1-ene)-block-poly(styrene) in bulk and at various interfaces
- B. Heck, P. Arends, M. Ganter, J. Kressler, B. Stühn. Macromolecules 30, 4559-4566 (1997)
- Improving Adhesion via Connector Polymers to Stabilize Non-wetting Liquid Films
- G. Reiter, J. Schultz, P. Auroy, L. Auvray. Europhys. Lett. 33, 29 (1996)