Journal article
Lower critical ordering temperature in diblock copolymer melts
Abstract
It has recently been observed that a diblock copolymer melt can undergo a second microphase separation with increasing temperature. We use an equation-of-state description along with the random phase approximation to study the stability of the disordered system, and calculate the lower critical ordering temperature as a function of the polymer interaction parameters, chain lengths, and volume fractions.
Authors
Yeung C; Desai RC; Shi A-C; Noolandi J
Journal
Physical Review Letters, Vol. 72, No. 12, pp. 1834–1837
Publisher
American Physical Society (APS)
Publication Date
March 21, 1994
DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.72.1834
ISSN
0031-9007