Physics – Condensed Matter – Soft Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2009-07-31
Physics
Condensed Matter
Soft Condensed Matter
15 pages, 5 figures
Scientific paper
The formation of interface from an initial sharp interface in polydisperse A/B blends is studied using the external potential dynamic method. The present model is a nonlocal coupling model as we take into account the correlation between segments in a single chain. The correlation is approximately expressed by Debye function and the diffusion dynamics are based on the Rouse chain model. The chain length distribution is described by the continuous Schulz distribution. Our numerical calculation indicates that the broadening of interface with respect to time obeys a power law at early times, and the power law indexes are the same for both monodisperse and polydisperse blend. The power law index is larger than that in the local coupling model. However there is not a unified scaling form of the broadening of the interface width if only the interfacial width at equilibrium is taken into account as the characteristic length of the system, because the correlation makes an extra characteristic length in the system, and the polydispersity is related to this length.
Qi Shuanhu
Yan Dadong
Zhang Xinghu
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