Communication: Lateral phase separation of mixed polymer brushes physisorbed on planar substrates

Here, we present a new method to model lateral phase separation in mixed polymer brushes physisorbed to a planar surface with mobile grafting points. The model is based on a local mean field theory that combines a Flory-Huggins approximation for interaction enthalpies with an Alexander-de Gennes bru...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Van Lehn, Reid C., Alexander-Katz, Alfredo
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Institute of Physics 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/79417
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5554-1283