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Surface-induced phase transition of asymmetric diblock copolymer in selective solvents
Authors:Wang Rong  Jiang Zhibin  Chen Yeng-Long  Xue Gi
Institution:Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, People's Republic of China. rong_wang73@hotmail.com
Abstract:Surface-induced phase transition of asymmetric diblock copolymer in selective solvents is first theoretically investigated by using the real-space version of self-consistent field theory (SCFT). By varying the distance between two parallel hard surfaces (or the film thickness) W and the block copolymer concentration f(p), several morphologies are predicted and the phase diagram is constructed. Self-assembly morphologies of the diblock copolymer in dilute solution are found to change significantly with different film thickness. In confined systems, stable morphologies found in the bulk solution become unstable due to the loss of polymer conformation entropy. We find that in a very dilute block copolymer solution, phase separation can be induced through polymer depletion as the solution becomes more confined. Our findings provide an interesting starting point for a renewed effort in both experimental and theoretical investigations of confined block copolymer solutions.
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