Glassy states and microphase separation in cross-linked homopolymer blends

Details Glassy states and microphase separation in cross-linked homopolymer blends Glassy states and microphase separation in cross-linked homopolymer blends

2004-11-02

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0411056v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

7 pages, 6 figures

Scientific paper

10.1209/epl/i2004-10522-9

The physical properties of blends of distinct homopolymers, cross-linked beyond the gelation point, are addressed via a Landau approach involving a pair of coupled order-parameter fields: one describing vulcanisation, the other describing local phase separation. Thermal concentration fluctuations, present at the time of cross-linking, are frozen in by cross-linking, and the structure of the resulting glassy fluctuations is analysed at the Gaussian level in various regimes, determined by the relative values of certain physical length-scales. The enhancement, due to gelation, of the stability of the blend with respect to demixing is also analysed. Beyond the corresponding stability limit, gelation prevents complete demixing, replacing it by microphase separation, which occurs up to a length-scale set by the rigidity of the network, as a simple variational scheme reveals.

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