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Monte Carlo phase diagram for diblock copolymer melts

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Matsen, M. W., Griffiths, G. H. orcid id iconORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-6340-3686, Wickham, R. A. and Vassiliev, O. N. (2006) Monte Carlo phase diagram for diblock copolymer melts. Journal of Chemical Physics, 124 (2). 024904. ISSN 0021-9606

Abstract/Summary

A partial phase diagram is constructed for diblock copolymer melts using lattice-based Monte Carlo simulations. This is done by locating the order-disorder transition (ODT) with the aid of a recently proposed order parameter and identifying the ordered phase over a wide range of copolymer compositions (0.2 <= f <= 0.8). Consistent with experiments, the disordered phase is found to exhibit direct first-order transitions to each of the ordered morphologies. This includes the spontaneous formation of a perforated-lamellar phase, which presumably forms in place of the gyroid morphology due to finite-size and/or nonequilibrium effects. Also included in our study is a detailed examination of disordered cylinder-forming (f=0.3) diblock copolymers, revealing a substantial degree of pretransitional chain stretching and short-range order that set in well before the ODT, as observed previously in analogous studies on lamellar-forming (f=0.5) molecules. (c) 2006 American Institute of Physics.

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Divisions Science > School of Mathematical, Physical and Computational Sciences > Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Uncontrolled Keywords MICROPHASE SEPARATION TRANSITION ASYMMETRIC BLOCK-COPOLYMERS COMPUTER-SIMULATION POLYMERS BEHAVIOR ORDER
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