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Medientyp:
E-Artikel
Titel:
Elastic properties of homopolymer-homopolymer interfaces containing diblock copolymers
Beteiligte:
Laradji, Mohamed;
Desai, Rashmi C.
Erschienen:
AIP Publishing, 1998
Erschienen in:
The Journal of Chemical Physics, 108 (1998) 11, Seite 4662-4674
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1063/1.475877
ISSN:
1089-7690;
0021-9606
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Beschreibung:
<jats:p>We study the elastic properties of homopolymer/homopolymer interfaces containing diblock copolymers by means of a theory of Gaussian fluctuations. The interfacial tension and the bending rigidity of the interface in the two-phase coexistence region are calculated from the power spectrum of capillary modes. Our theory shows that in the limiting case of a pure binary homopolymer mixture, while the interfacial tension increases monotonically with increasing χN (where χ is the Flory-Huggins parameter and N is the homopolymer molecular weight) the bending rigidity does not. The bending rigidity increases rapidly at first for small values of χN, but then decreases with further increase of χN. In the presence of diblock copolymers, the interfacial tension always decreases with increasing diblock copolymer volume fraction at a given χN. However, the bending rigidity can show either a decrease or an increase depending on χN and the ratio γ between the molecular weights of a diblock copolymer and that of a homopolymer. Our results for the surface pressure and the bending rigidity are further compared with results based on scaling arguments of wet polymer brushes.</jats:p>