SCFT Study of Tiling Patterns in ABC Star Terpolymers

Ordered phases of ABC star terpolymer melts are investigated using a generic reciprocal-space implementation of the self-consistent field theory (SCFT) of polymers. The most important feature of ABC star triblock terpolymers is that their three blocks are joined at one junction point. This distinct topology of ABC star terpolymers constraints the junction points in one-dimensional lines in an ordered phase, resulting novel microphase-separated …