Phase behaviour of block copolymer melts with arbitrary architecture

Details Phase behaviour of block copolymer melts with arbitrary architecture Phase behaviour of block copolymer melts with arbitrary architecture

2000-08-17

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0008246v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

Submitted to J. Chem. Phys., see also http://rugmd4.chem.rug.nl/~morozov/research.html

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.1338533

The Leibler theory [L. Leibler, Macromolecules, v.13, 1602 (1980)] for microphase separation in AB block copolymer melts is generalized for systems with arbitrary topology of molecules. A diagrammatic technique for calculation of the monomeric correlation functions is developed. The free energies of various mesophases are calculated within the second-harmonic approximation. Model highly-branched tree-like structures are considered as an example and their phase diagrams are obtained. The topology of molecules is found to influence the spinodal temperature and asymmetry of the phase diagrams, but not the types of phases and their order. We suggest that all model AB block-copolymer systems will exhibit the typical phase behaviour.

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