Interfacial tension in binary polymer mixtures

Macromolecules

Volumn 29, Issue 19, 1996, Pages 6294-6300

  Ermoshkin, A V ^a   Semenov, A N ^a,b  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BINARY MIXTURES; FREE ENERGY; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); INTERFACIAL ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; SURFACE TENSION;

BINARY POLYMER MIXTURES; FLORY HUGGINS MODEL; IMMISCIBLE HOMOPOLYMERS; SQUARE GRADIENT APPROACH;

ORGANIC POLYMERS;

EID: 0030576813     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma951636r     Document Type: Article

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20. 15 the contribution to the total free energy, coming from this large-scale region, does vanish in the limit mentioned above.
21. Here and until the end of the section, we assume that monomer volume v and the temperature T are taken as unity.
22. Here and below, we again take into account that the system is homogeneous in the x,y plane and consider all energetic quantities per unit area in this plane.
23. 4