Evolution in dilute diblock-copolymer melts

✍ Scribed by Barbara Niethammer

• Book ID: 102217321
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 93 KB
• Volume: 34
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0936-7195
• DOI: 10.1002/gamm.201110021

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

We consider diblock copolymer melts in the regime that the volume fraction of one component is small. In this regime microphase separation results in the formation of a large number of small spherical particles. We present here a simple method to derive effective evolution equations for the motion of such particles that is based on the gradient flow structure of the underlying free boundary problem (© 2011 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)