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On the Phase Nature of Polymer Brush Collapse upon Solvent Deterioration

✍ Scribed by Victor M. Amoskov; Tatiana M. Birshtein

Book ID
102497088
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2009
Tongue
English
Weight
215 KB
Volume
18
Category
Article
ISSN
1022-1344

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Abstract

The phase nature of polymer brush collapse upon deterioration of the solvent was investigated. The analysis is based on the self‐consistent field theory and the Flory‐Huggins model. It was shown that the transition from good to poor solvent via the θ‐point is actually a phase transition of high order. This result contradicts the conventional view on this process as a non‐phase one. According to the Ehrenfest classification, this process appears to be a fifth‐order phase transition.

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