Critical polymer-polymer phase separation in ternary solutions

Details Critical polymer-polymer phase separation in ternary solutions Critical polymer-polymer phase separation in ternary solutions

2005-07-26

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0507602v1

J. Chem. Phys. 123, 074907 (2005)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

To appear in J. Chem. Phys

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.1997154

We study polymer-polymer phase separation in a common good solvent by means of Monte Carlo simulations of the bond-fluctuation model. Below a critical, chain-length dependent concentration, no phase separation occurs. For higher concentrations, the critical demixing temperature scales nonlinearly with the total monomer concentration, with a power law relatively close to a renormalization-group prediction based on "blob" scaling arguments. We point out that earlier simulations and experiments have tested this power-law dependence at concentrations outside the validity regime of the scaling arguments. The critical amplitudes of the order parameter and the zero-angle scattering intensity also exhibit chain-length dependences that differ from the conventional predictions but are in excellent agreement with the renormalization-group results. In addition, we characterize the variation of the average coil shape upon phase separation.

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