Phase behavior of block copolymer melts with arbitrary architecture
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Phase behaviour of block copolymer melts with arbitrary architecture
The Leibler theory [L. Leibler, Macromolecules 13 1602 (1980)] for mi-crophase 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 t...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Chemical Physics
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0021-9606,1089-7690
DOI: 10.1063/1.1338533