Journal article
Dynamics of interacting edge defects in copolymer lamellae
Abstract
It is known that terraces at the air-polymer interface of lamella-forming diblock copolymers do not make discontinuous jumps in height. Despite the underlying discretized structure, the height profiles are smoothly varying. The width of a transition region of a terrace edge in isolation is typically several hundreds of nanometres, resulting from a balance between surface tension, chain stretching penalties, and the enthalpy of mixing. What is …
Authors
McGraw JD; Rowe IDW; Matsen MW; Dalnoki-Veress K
Journal
The European Physical Journal E, Vol. 34, No. 12,
Publisher
Springer Nature
Publication Date
December 2011
DOI
10.1140/epje/i2011-11131-7
ISSN
1292-8941