Aggregates of rod-coil diblock copolymers adsorbed at a surface

Details Aggregates of rod-coil diblock copolymers adsorbed at a surface Aggregates of rod-coil diblock copolymers adsorbed at a surface

2006-01-03

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0601037v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

10 pages, 11 figures

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.2204912

The behaviour of rod-coil diblock copolymers close to a surface is discussed by using extended scaling methods. The copolymers are immersed in selective solvent such that the rods are likely to aggregate to gain energy. The rods are assumed to align only parallel to each other, such that they gain a maximum energy by forming liquid crystalline structures. If an aggregate of these copolymers adsorbs with the rods parallel to the surface the rods shift with respect to each other to allow for the chains to gain entropy. It is shown that this shift decays with increasing distance from the surface. The profile of this decay away from the surface is calculated by minimisation of the total free energy of the system. The stability of such an adsorbed aggregate and other possible configurations are discussed as well.

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