Structural and Conformational Properties of Polymeric Stars with Fullerene Centre in Solutions by SANS.

Abstract: A review of recent activity in SANS-studies of fullerene-containing star-shaped polymers in solutions has been presented. The structural analysis of the internal ordering, conformational changes and self-assembly of stars polymers having only one or different kinds of arms (polar + non polar) attached to fullerene centre has been performed. It was performed the analysis of SANS-patterns using Benoit and Daoud-Cotton model in reciprocal space and the treatment of molecular correlations to understand a specific role of fullerene in formation of arms’ conformation. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]