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Mesophases of Regularly Branched Copolymers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 March 2011

Galen T. Pickett
Galen T. Pickett*
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Department of Physics and AstronomyCalifornia State University Long Beach1250 Bellflower Blvd. Long Beach, CA 90840
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Abstract

The phase diagram of A/B block copolymers is determined when the A block is a flexible, linear homopolymer, and the B block has a regularly branched tree structure with G generations. The predictions of a classical-path analysis and a lattice self-consistent mean field calculation are in general agreement. The phase diagram is considerably skewed toward keeping the A blocks inside cylindrical or spherical cores with the branched block forming a corona. There is little, if any, tendency for the branched arms to fold back to facilitate packing.

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Research Article
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 710: Symposia DD – Polymer Interfaces and Thin Films , 2001 , DD3.1.1
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2002

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