Orientational phase transitions in the hexagonal phase of a diblock copolymer melt under shear flow
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Influence of confinement on the orientational phase transitions in the lamellar phase of a block-copolymer melt under shear flow.
In this paper, we incorporate some real-system effects into the theory of orientational phase transitions under shear flow [M. E. Cates and S. T. Milner, Phys. Rev. Lett. 62 1856 (1989) and G. H. Fredrickson, J. Rheol. 38, 1045 (1994)]. In particular, we study the influence of the shear-cell boundaries on the orientation of the lamellar phase. We predict that at low shear rates, the parallel or...
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عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review E
سال: 2000
ISSN: 1063-651X,1095-3787
DOI: 10.1103/physreve.61.4125