Equilibrium morphology of block copolymer melts. II

An earlier theory on the same subject was reformulated so as to exhibit the scaling behavior inherent in the free energy functional. In this way, the domain size of mesophases behaving as the two-thirds power of the polymerization index is naturally recovered. The higher order long-range interaction...

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Published inMacromolecules Vol. 21; no. 10; pp. 2972 - 2980
Main Authors KAWASAKI, K, OHTA, T, KOHROGUI, M
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Washington, DC American Chemical Society 01.10.1988
Subjects
Applied sciences
Exact sciences and technology
Organic polymers
Physicochemistry of polymers
Properties and characterization
Structure, morphology and analysis
Theoretical study
Mesophase
Morphology
Phase separation
Block copolymer
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Summary:An earlier theory on the same subject was reformulated so as to exhibit the scaling behavior inherent in the free energy functional. In this way, the domain size of mesophases behaving as the two-thirds power of the polymerization index is naturally recovered. The higher order long-range interactions of the parameter field are found not to be small and indicate a need to accurately calculate free energies in various mesophases, which is a purely geometrical problem in the strong segregation limit of the symmetric block copolymer model. 11 ref.--AA
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ISSN:0024-9297