ABSTRACT
In this report, we demonstrated that upon heating a diblock copolymer of p-methyl styrene and phenyl vinylsulfoxide (MS-b-PVSO) in tetrahydrofuran, the soluble and flexible PVSO block could be converted into an insoluble and rigid PA block via a chemical reaction, resulting a self-assembly of the copolymer chains into a core-shell nanostructure with the PA blocks as the core and the MS blocks as the shell. The reaction and self-assembly rates could be simply controlled by the reaction temperature. This is an important step towards the processing of intractable polyacetylene as a useful and potential material.
