title: Miscibility and hydrogen-bonding behavior in organic/inorganic polymer hybrids containing octaphenol polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane.
abstract: In this study, we investigated the miscibility behavior and mechanism of interaction of poly(methyl mechacrylate) (PMMA), poly(vinyl pyrrolidone) PVP, and PMMA- co-PVP blends with octa(phenol)octasilsequioxane (OP-POSS). For the PMMA/OP-POSS binary blend, the value of the association constant ( K A = 29) was smaller than that in the poly(vinyl phenol) (PVPh)/PMMA ( K A = 37.4) and ethyl phenol (EPh)/PMMA ( K A = 101) blend systems, implying that the phenol groups of the OP-POSS units in the PMMA/OP-POSS blends interacted to a lesser degree with the CO groups of PMMA than they did in the other two systems. In addition, the ionic conductivity of a LiClO4/PMMA- co-PVP polymer electrolyte was increased after blending with OP-POSS.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Applied Chemistry, National Chiao-Tung University Hsin-Chu, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Ying-Chieh
authors.initials: YC
authors.lastname: Yen
authors.forename: Shiao-Wei
authors.initials: SW
authors.lastname: Kuo
authors.forename: Chih-Feng
authors.initials: CF
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Jem-Kun
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Feng-Chih
authors.initials: FC
authors.lastname: Chang