A Simulated Annealing Study of Diblock Copolymer Brushes in Selective Solvents

Abstract

We report a simulated annealing study of the morphology of block copolymer brushes in selective solvents. The investigation is carried out with a lattice model, in which the ends of A-blocks of monodisperse linear AB diblock copolymer flexible chains are grafted regularly on a flat substrate plane with an equal “spacing”. The morphological dependences of the brushes on solvent selectivity, polymer grafting density, and block lengths are …