Physics – Condensed Matter – Soft Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2000-10-09
Macromolecules 33(20), 7226-7228 (2000)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Soft Condensed Matter
3 pages, 3 eps figures
Scientific paper
10.1021/ma000734w
A simple model was constructed to describe the polar ordering of non-centrosymmetric supramolecular aggregates formed by self assembling triblock rodcoil polymers. The aggregates are modeled as dipoles in a lattice with an Ising-like penalty associated with reversing the orientation of nearest neighbor dipoles. The choice of the potentials is based on experimental results and structural features of the supramolecular objects. For films of finite thickness, we find a periodic structure along an arbitrary direction perpendicular to the substrate normal, where the repeat unit is composed of two equal width domains with dipole up and dipole down configuration. When a short range interaction between the surface and the dipoles is included the balance between the up and down dipole domains is broken. Our results suggest that due to surface effects, films of finite thickness have a none zero macroscopic polarization, and that the polarization per unit volume appears to be a function of film thickness.
la Cruz Monica Olvera de
Sayar Mehmet
Solis Francisco J.
Stupp Samuel I.
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